Quotes About God

Lo sa qual è l'unico modo per far ridere il buon Dio?". Esitazione all'altro capo del filo. "Raccontargli i propri progetti." In altre parole, niente panico, non c'è nulla che vada come previsto, è l'unica cosa che ci insegna il futuro quando diventa passato.

When we live to glorify God and not ourselves, we are answering the purpose for which God made us and redeemed us. It is in this kind of life alone that true and lasting joy, satisfaction, contentment, and pleasure are found. HOW

While we carry the good news to the poor, only God can grant repentance and faith, and this relieved missionaries and evangelists of either despair on the one hand or proud triumphalism on the other.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness, nourishment of mind by His truth, purifying of imagination by His beauty, opening of the heart to His love, and submission of will to His purpose, and all this gathered up in adoration is the greatest of human expressions of which we are capable.' -William Temple, archbishop of Canterbury (1881-1944)

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

The soil of the sacred city is filled with the remnants of empires that miscalculated. Jerusalem is the city of God. But it is also a gravestone to the folly of man. – Holy Father

She named the child Gabriel, the messenger of God, the defender of Israel, the interpreter of Daniel's visions.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without any passion in their heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the idea of God, not in God Himself. MIGUEL D

So we're going to church. But which church? Americans like choice in their churches, as in their snack foods. We favor designer churches and a God designed to fit our tastes. We even start sentences with "My God is" followed by a descriptor, as though we each get to create the kind of god we want from a checklist of qualities that please us: loving (check), reasonable (check), favors my causes (double check).

Still," he says, "if I shared my doubts with you, about God and love and life and death, that's all you'd have: a bunch of doubts. But now, see, you've got all these great jokes." "They're

History is God's providence in human affairs.

The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

This notion of eternal punishment strikes me as one of the most perverse ideas ever devised. Monotheistic religions describe their God as merciful and compassionate, and in the same breath tell us that this merciful and compassionate God will sentence people to eternal torture if they don't believe in his existence, despite a complete lack of objective evidence. Is it just me, or are we looking at a bit of a contradiction?

To keep the soul continually in a state of gentle calm, it is necessary to perform every action as being done in the presence of God, and as if he himself had ordained it." ~St. Francis de Sales

Find courage to stop struggling for love. Find strength to stand on the shoulders of our sisters who went before us and be fully and authentically yourself. Find the joy you are meant to have as the precious daughter of a God who knows you and loves you inside and out.

Enough navel gazing! Lift my chin, God, and focus my eyes on you. Let me take all the little anxieties of my day and all the big fears of my sleepless nights and see them for what they are: a chance for the devil to monopolize the conversation inside my head. I don't want him in my head, God. I want you there. Please be with me. Act

AminteÈ™te-È›i c? Satana a fost la început unul dintre cei mai mândri îngeri, un nobil serafim, pân? s? nesocoteasc? porunca lui Dumnezeu.

and I've surprised myself by how strong I can be with God's help. He does his part, but I must also do mine!

The purpose of all of these rooms is to show people that they can be in control of their lives through God,

You are the difference that God makes," the Being of Light communicated to me. "And that difference is love.

the purpose of these rooms, as stated by one of the Beings of Light, "is to show people that they can be in control of their lives through God.

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.