Quotes About God

Now it is clear, God cares only for what is his, busies himself only with himself, thinks only of himself, and has only himself before his eyes; woe to all that is not well pleasing to him. He serves no higher person, and satisfies only himself. His cause is - a purely egoistic cause.

Das Konzept Gottes geworden in Anatolien und wurde dem Westen auferlegt.

The only way of living acceptably to God was not to surpass worldly morality in monastic asceticism, but solely through the fulfillment of the obligations imposed upon the individual by his position in the world. That was his calling. 

The monastic life is not only quite devoid of value as a means of justification before God, but he also looks upon its renunciation of the duties of this world as the product of selfishness, withdrawing from temporal obligations. In

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

He had borrowed the colours of his life from that spectrum of desire which he called God.

The clay or putty-like material stays soft and malleable enough to do so many, many times. In his infinite wisdom, God manufactured the self-image of similar material, so it remains malleable throughout our entire lives. No one is ever too old, too jaded, too frightened, or too traumatized to "wet the clay" and begin remaking it as they imagine and desire.

Jesus expressed the same thought when he told us not to hide our light under a bushel, but to let our light shine "so that your Father may be glorified." I cannot believe that it brings any glory to God when his children go around with hangdog expressions, being miserable, afraid to lift up their heads and "be somebody.

in finding in oneself an individuality, uniqueness, and distinctiveness that is akin to the idea of being created in the image of God.

There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, "Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

Možda bi trebalo da ih mrzim ali ne mogu. Ja nemam dva srca jedno za mržnju drugo za ljubav. Ovo što imam sad zna samo za tugu. Moja molitva i moja pokora moj život i moja smrt sve to pripada Bogu stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.

?uvaj se mržnje, da ne pogriješiš prema sebi i prema ljudima. ?uvaj se žalosti, da ne pogriješiš prema Bogu

Moja molitva i moja pokora, moj život i moja smrt, sve to pripada Bogu, stvoritelju svijeta. Ali moja žalost pripada meni.

nous n'allons pas ensevelir la dépouille de cet homme pour proclamer son innocence, nous ferons plus : nous sèmerons ces ossements en souvenir d'une injustice. Qu'il en germe ce que Dieu décidera.

Adam and Eve thought they had a greater knowledge than God. They were created to be like God, not to be God.

A man's idea of God corresponds to his ideal of himself. The nobler he is, the more exalted his God.

I can let my true self shine in front of God.

Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)

Who are we aligning ourselves with? Are we aligning ourselves with the presence of God as it is abused, broken, bleeding, and mocked and scorned even now in this world? Do we take that one step down, risking insecurity, violence, guilt by association, to stand beside those who are both victim and accused, and public sinner – criminal and despised in society?

And morning came… It still comes. Our God is here, Emmanuel, among us, always coming towards us, always standing behind us, always standing up for us, always standing with us in solidarity in communion asking us to come with Him now as disciple, as follower, as believer, as a friend, as intimate beloved child of God, now and forever.

The Resurrection revealed a defined God who resist violence with powerful nonviolence and refuses to allow death to keep its grip on His child. And by raising Jesus from the dead, He raised every story He ever told, every sermon He ever preached, every value He ever stood for, every preference for the poor and the outcast that He espoused.

Jesus from the moment he first appears in Galilee is a sign of contradiction, fomenting revolution through telling the truth about the state of the world, the reality of evil, and the eye of God, who judges in a different vein altogether than courts of law, whether they be religious canons, the ecclesiastical courts, or government legal systems.