Quotes About God

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two.

Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God's help, you can accomplish anything.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do. [Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.