Quotes About God

God wants to bring super-good out of each and every situation, even those that are intensely evil.

I have found God to be everything He claims to be: Holy God, wholly good.

Prior to full freedom, expect God to prompt you to take preventative precautions. He is, after all, your loving parent who does not want you to suffer unnecessarily.

Our emotions are meant to draw us toward God, not away from Him.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Did you really mean what you said?" she asked softly. "If God Himself were waiting at Gloucester, you would not relinquish me?" He did not meet her gaze, but the muscles in his arms bunched beneath her hands as he pulled her close again. "I meant it, he whispered, burying his lips in her hair.

Peace and joy in God!!!! May her blessings be with you. Marsha

To him, Layla's promising aroma was not a reminder of a long-lost boyhood or the instigator of teenage lust. No, for Malachy, the sight of Layla's exotic profile filling up a bag of white onions was a sign, a resounding 'yes' to the age-old questions of the divine. Yes, there was a God. Yes, there was life beyond the sleepy valleys of Ballinacroagh. Yes, there 'were' undiscovered universes waiting just for him. And one of them was standing right before him, in all her astounding milky ways.

When he was troubled, he consulted no one. He knew by the light of faith that God was present, and he contented himself with directing all his actions to Him. He did everything with the intent to please God, and did not worry about consequences. "Useless thoughts spoil everything," he said. All trouble began there. We ought to let go of such thoughts as soon as we are aware of them.

All that is needed to bring us to union with God is love. He had pondered this subject much, and concluded that the shortest way to God was to go straight to Him by a continual exercise of love and doing everything for His sake.

This presence of God so inflamed and transported him that it was difficult for him to contain himself. He said he was more united to God in his outward work, than when he left it for devotion in seclusion.

By getting up after every fall, and by frequently renewing my faith and love, I have arrived at a state of mind where it is more difficult for me NOT to think of God as it was at the beginning to think of Him.

All kinds of spiritual disciplines, if they are void of the love of God, cannot remove a single sin from our lives.

Continue always with God. It is the only strength and comfort for your suffering. I will pray that He be with you.

Part of this communion with God is praising, adoring, and loving him incessantly for His infinite goodness and perfection.

disciplines, if they are void of the love of God, cannot remove a single sin from our lives.

He may do whatever He wants with me. But my Lord, who is full of mercy and goodness, does not punish me. Instead he embraces me in love, seats me at His table, and serves me with His own hands. He hands me the key to His treasure trove. He converses with me and shows his delight in me incessantly in thousands of ways. He treats me in all respects as His favorite son. This is how I come into God's holy presence.

Let him think of God as often as he can. Let him gradually develop within himself this small but sacred practice.

What you are telling me is nothing new. You are not the only one who has trouble with wandering thoughts. Our minds are extremely unfocussed. But our will is the master of all our faculties, and it is able to rein them in and carry them to God, which is their final goal.

We must know God before we can love God. In order to know God, we must think of Him often. When we grow to love Him, then we shall think of Him often. Our heart will be where our treasure is.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake. It is sad to see how many people mistake the means for the end, addicting themselves to religious works, which they perform very imperfectly because of their human or selfish motives.

Our sanctification does not depend upon changing what we do, but in doing for God's sake what we normally do for our own sake. It is sad to see how many people mistake the means for the end, addicting themselves to religious works, which they perform very imperfectly because of their human or selfish motives. The most excellent method he had found of going to God was to do our normal activities without any view of pleasing men, and (as far as we are able) purely for the love of God.