Quotes About God

Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days, Almighty, victorious, Thy great Name we praise.

Ignatius realized that if you act in accord with God's desires for you, you will naturally feel a sense of peace.

For me, prayer is intentional one-on-one time with God. It occurs in the context of personal relationship with God but, more specifically, it is what happens when you are intentionally trying to speak with, listen to, or be with God.

mine what we know about human relationships for ways to understand our relationship with God.

Occasionally during prayer, when I catch myself daydreaming, I say to myself, "You're speaking with God! Pay attention!

God says that Moses will see his back as he passed by him. "Thus," Father Kolvenbach wrote, "looking back over the length and breadth of his life the abbot could see for himself the passage of God." The examen helps you see God in retrospect.

Joy is not simply a fleeting feeling or an evanescent emotion; it is a deep-seated result of of one's connection of God.

Savoring slows us down. In the examen we don't recall an important experience simply to add it to a list of things that we've seen or done; rather, we savor it as if it were a satisfying meal. We pause to enjoy what has happened. It's a deepening of our gratitude to God, revealing the hidden joys of our days. As Anthony de Mello said, "You sanctify whatever you are grateful for." The

If asked to define Ignatian spirituality, the first thing out of their mouths would most likely be finding God in all things.

After "finding God in all things," the second answer you would probably get from those five hypothetical Jesuits is that Ignatian spirituality is about being a contemplative in action.

Can you surrender to the future that God has in store for you?

Pay attention to physical feelings as well. Recently, I chatted with Matt, a young Jesuit in training, who had just directed a retreat for a group of young adults and spoke with them about how to listen to God. In addition to feelings of peace and comfort, and even inexplicable and incommunicable feelings, Matt added bodily feelings, another indication of God's presence.

Humor can help churches humble. It puts the community in touch with its inevitable limitations as a human organization, and its fundamental reliance to God. That leads us to God through the gateway of humility.

His whole life was a quest for freedom—the freedom to be open to the wonderful reality that God has made, to God himself, to what is!

Desire is a primary way that God leads people to discover who they are and what they are meant to do.

As David Lonsdale writes, we feel peace about a particular decision when it is "coherent with" God's desires for our happiness. Ignatius understood that God works through our deepest desires. When we are following that path to God, things seem right. Things feel in synch because they are in synch.

Another tip: "During a time of desolation one should never make a change," says Ignatius. Why not? Because when you are feeling distant from God and experiencing desolation (gnawing anxiety, etc.), you are more inclined to be guided by the evil spirit.

Our souls recognize God because they were created by God.

being spiritual and being religious are both part of being in relationship with God. Neither can be fully realized without the other.

Before you begin, as in all prayer, remind yourself that you're in God's presence, and ask God to help you with your prayer.

In order to communicate an essential truth, God offered us a parable: Jesus. Jesus is the parable of God. So for the Christian, if you want to learn about God, get to know Jesus.

God wants to be with you. God desires to be with you. What's more, God desires a relationship with you.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

He was like everybody in war. He believed God was on his side. Everybody got God on their side in a war. Problem is, God ain't tellin' nobody who He's for.