Quotes About God

The Church has a vision of wholeness and holiness for the human person, and everything the Church does should help her members to become more perfectly who God created them to be.

Granted that it is best to seek the meaning intended by the author, we should not forget that Scripture is about love. We must approach Scripture in faith, hope, and love, and not place our trust in our own interpretations, which can lead us astray. Not erudition, but faith, hope, and love lead us to our goal of the vision of God. Many will attain this goal without studying even the books of Scripture.

Ahora, cualquiera que sea la medida de conocimiento, que un hombre pueda tener de Dios y de Jesucristo, si no es un conocimiento para salvación (conocimiento unido con afecto y aplicación), él es solo un casi cristiano.

Él solo conocerá correctamente a Dios, si sabe cómo obedecerlo, y le obedece de acuerdo con su conocimiento de Él:

Un hombre puede profesar religión y vivir en una forma de piedad en hipocresía. "Oíd esto, oh casa de Jacob, que son llamados por el nombre de Israel, y han salido de las aguas de Judá; que juran por el nombre del Señor, y hacen mención del Dios de Israel, pero no en la verdad, ni en la justicia".[138]

God in America is a free spirit, a supernatural entity capable of being shaped to fit a variety of ideas, Christian or otherwise. Like divine Play-Doh, America's God can be kneaded with hands, squashed between fingers, coerced into shapes, manipulated by devices, and, though it's not always recommended, digested by human bodies. Because God's Spirit is nontoxic.

Edwards's God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn't simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

Animals have this way of constantly confronting us with ultimate questions - about truth and falsehood, guilt and innocence, God and sanctity and the soul - forcing us to define ourselves and our relationship to the world.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.

We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, 'Worship none but God and be good to your parents and to relatives and orphans and the needy. And speak kindly to people.g

God has sealed their hearts and their ears, and over their eyes there is a covering. They will have a terrible punishment. 8

223 Your wives are your fields. Go, then, into your fields as you will. Send ahead [some good] for yourselves, and fear God, and know that you shall meet Him.' Give good tidings to the believers.

Following the rule of abstinence from worldly things does not mean that what is normally permitted becomes prohibited or that wealth should be allowed to go to waste. On the contrary, such abstinence means that you should place greater reliance on what God intends for you than on what you have in hand yourself. And when misfortune strikes, you should relish its continuance for the reward this will bring. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU DHARR AL-GHIFARI.

I have never lost my faith in God.

life. I would have given anything to live in a grand house like this. But God didn't see fit to answer those prayers. Turns out He had something much better in store for me, and that something was Quentin.

We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as present; this is a thought according to our measure, destined only to console us. It is much more fitting to think that God is not, just as we must love him purely enough that we could be indifferent to the fact that he should not be. It is for this reason that the atheist is closer to God than the believer.

Gracias, Señor, Dios mío, por haberme dejado el odio. Es la única fuerza que me sostiene.

To love one's neighbour in the immovable depths means to love in others that which is eternal; for one's neighbour, in the truest sense of the term, is that which approaches the nearest to God; in other words, all that is best and purest in man; and it is only by ever lingering near the gates I spoke of, that you can discover the divine in the soul.

Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.

Our lives must be spent seeking our God, for God hides; but His artifices, once they be known, seem so simple and smiling! From that moment, the merest nothing reveals His presence, and the greatness of our life depends on so little.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

God is not known apart from experience, but we take hold of him in the finite.

Philosophy...is a question....The human being is a question for God himself. We are not masters of this question.