Quotes About God

The selfish thing to do was to play to everyone's needs to feel accepted. The unselfish thing to do was to be the person God created me to be, to serve him and people, to speak the truth, even when the truth wasn't going to make me popular.

Every time, every woman, every circumstance; the answer is Him.

Relationship with God is personal but not private, intimate but not individualistic. When you choose to follow Jesus, you join a community, the church: a community so connected to Jesus that Scripture calls it his very body, the body of Christ.

over many centuries and through multiple human authors, God has so superintended the development of the Bible that it speaks to us about real life (zoë) and teaches us how to live "with God

The Spiritual Disciplines in and of themselves have no merit whatsoever. They possess no righteousness, contain no rectitude. Their purpose—their only purpose—is to place us before God. After that they have come to the end of their usefulness. But it is enough.

Spiritual Disciplines involve doing what we can do to receive from God the power to do what we cannot do. And God graciously uses this process to produce in us the kind of person who automatically will do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace. — Thomas Merton

The purpose of God's gifts is to unite us in a unity which is like the unity of the Father and the Son. — Thomas Aquinas

I'm just saying, sissy, love the life God gave you. Stop trying to create a different one.

Even the fact that to be for God, leads to the maximum blessedness, is secondary to the fact that we are for Him.

I should like my epitaph to say, "He helped people see God in the ordinary things of life, and he made children laugh.

We crave nothing less that the perfect story; And while we chatter or listen all our lives to a din of craving – jokes, anecdotes, novels, dreams, films, plays, songs, half the words of our days – We are satisfied only by the one short tale we feel to be true; History is the will of a just God who knows us.

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

It was not unusual to be called Son of God in ancient Judaism. God calls David his son: "today I have begotten you" (Psalms 2:7). He even calls Israel his "first-born son" (Exodus 4:22). But in every case, Son of God is meant as a title, not a description. Paul's view of Jesus as the literal son of God is without precedence in second Temple Judaism.

We often get distracted with this thing called our body and our physical being. That just holds your spirit. And your spirit is so big it fills a room. You are eternal life. You are God manifested in human form, made to perfection.

When you lose the eyes of ego you see with the eyes of God." Mooji

You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word "God," in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.

En el Corán también se enfatiza la promesa de la gratitud: "Y (recuerda) cuando Dios proclamó: 'Si eres agradecido te daré más; pero si eres desagradecido, en verdad mi castigo será severo'." No

It is not people who are giving you the things you desire. If you hold that false belief, you will experience lack, because you are looking at the outside world and people as the supply. The true supply is the invisible field, whether you call that the Universe, the Supreme Mind, God, Infinite Intelligence, or whatever else.

Psalms 46:10 tells us to "Be Still and Know that I am God."

Then how can prayers be answered if you do not call upon the saints to help? God is obviously too busy to do everything alone.

Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.