Quotes About God

Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.

The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

I have been about the world long enough to know that God's plans for us, however infallibly good, may not take the form that we expect and demand.

Even grief has its arrogance." "Then you have learned, my son, that vengeance belongs only to God?" "More than that, Father," said Luc. "I have learned that in God's hands vengeance is safe. However long delayed, however strangely manifested, the reckoning is sure.

The ugliness that man can do to man might cast a shadow between you and the certainty of the justice and mercy God can do to him hereafter. It takes half a lifetime to reach the spot where eternity is always visible, and the crude injustice of the hour shrivels out of sight.

So Rhun had arrived at the last frontier of belief, and fallen, or emerged, or soared into the region where the soul realises that pain is of no account, that to be within the secret of God is more than well being, and past the power of the tongue to utter. To embrace the decree of pain is to translate it, to shed it like a rain of blessing on others who have not yet understood.

Then sleep easy, said Cadfael, for God is awake.

God does indeed forbid," said Radulfus drily, "that we should make more of our virtues or our failings than is due. More than your due you shall not have of, neither praise nor blame. For

God resolves all given time," said Cai philosophically and trudged away into darkness. And Cadfael returned along the path with the uncomfortable feeling that God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

The manifold gifts of God are there to be delighted in, to fall short of joy would be ingratitude.

Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

By the grace of pataphysics, two telepathic letters from the Doctor to Lord Kelvin, and some geometrical equations, we are instructed that the exception is more reliable than the rule, imagination more accurate than fact, poetry more authentic than life, that Man is God, and God is the Tangential Point Between Zero and Infinity.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

The demiurge is a hybrid

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.

Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

God is the unlimited conceptual realization of the absolute wealth of potentiality.

In this sense, God is the great companion – the fellow-sufferer who understands.

The universe is neither centered on earth nor the sun. It is centered on God.

Now, if God made the clouds so beautiful, did He not mean us to gaze upon them and be thankful for them?

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.