Quotes About God

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

Letting ourselves be loved by God is the place where we stumble upon trust.

LIVE. If you live, god will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity.

God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Joy is the sheer evidence of God.

Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.

Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Be demanding of the world around you; be demanding first of all with yourselves. Be children of God; take pride in it!

The fact that God gave the whole human race the earth to use and enjoy cannot indeed in any manner serve as an objection against private possessions.

These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.

Either the future is subject to chance--in which case nobody, not even a god, can affect it one way or the other--or it is predestined, in which case foreknowledge cannot avert it.

If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.

You search for God, and seek to find Him here. Or you seek to find Him there. Why need you to look in the corners of the room when He entirely fills the room?

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.