Quotes About God

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

If God consistently sent lightning bolts in response to bad doctrine, our planet would sparkle nightly like a Christmas tree.

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Faith guides even us and we follow its sure light on the way which conducts us to God and His homeland.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

The great god Pan is dead.

Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!"

If your children see that you are seeking, they will seek-the finding part is up to God.

Let us allow ourselves to be 'infected' by St. Joseph's silence! We need it greatly, in a world that is often too noisy, that does not favor meditation or listening to the voice of God.

The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

Be missionaries of God's tenderness!

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

No one must use the name of God to commit violence. To kill in the name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate in the name of God is inhuman.

Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.