Quotes About God

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand." "Ditto

Then maybe God exists." Tracy made a face, not following. "I'm sorry?" "'When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to the evildoers.' Proverbs 21:15.

What you have to realize is that crying is God's way of helping us wash away the pain. So don't you ever apologize for crying;

Have faith in God's will." Then she closed her eyes. They would be the last words she ever spoke to me.

forget all this foolishness; leave the arguments to the pashus, and you worship God in whatever form you please.

The twentieth-century theologian Karl Rahner commented that "God" is the last sound we should make before falling silent, and Saint Augustine, long ago, said, "si comprehendis, non est Deus" (if you understand, that isn't God). All of this formal theologizing is but commentary on that elusive and confounding voice from the burning bush: "I am who am.

Joseph Ratzinger commented that the opening line of the Nicene Creed, Credo in unum Deum (I believe in one God), is a subversive statement because it automatically rules out any rival claimant to ultimate concern. To say that one accepts only the God of Israel and Jesus Christ is to say that one rejects as ultimate any human being, any culture, any political party, any artistic form, or any set of ideas.

According to the basic narrative of the Old Testament, God's answer to human dysfunction was the formation of a people after his own heart.

no one in the biblical tradition ever is granted an experience of God without being subsequently sent. Scriptural religion is a religion of mission.

Jesus turned upside down many of the social conventions of his time and place precisely because he was so concerned to place the instantiation of the Kingdom of God first in the minds of his followers.

one's deepest sense of freedom is coincident with an embrace of the God who is the ground of one's being.

No country, leader, political party, culture, civilization, moral ideal, or rival god can compete with the one God.

One of the most fundamental problems in the spiritual order is that we sense within ourselves the hunger for God, but we attempt to satisfy it with some created good that is less than God. Thomas Aquinas said that the four typical substitutes for God are wealth, pleasure, power, and honor.

In one of the most dramatic scenes in the Bible, God speaks out of the desert whirlwind. "Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance? Gird up your loins now, like a man; I will question you, and you tell me the answers!" (Job 38:2–

as he made Job, and though Job has probably never in his life even considered Behemoth and Leviathan, they are as ingredient in the complex weave of God's providence as is Job. The overall point of God's speech seems to be this: the suffering of any one person must be seen within the context of the infinitely subtle working out of God's purposes throughout the whole of space and time.

The twentieth-century philosopher of religion Rudolf Otto famously characterized the transcendent God as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the mystery that fascinates us even as it causes us to tremble with fear—

the term diabalein (to throw apart). If God is a great gathering force, then sin is a scattering power.

And let us remember, too, that one does not have to have the prestige of the world to be greatly used in the Kingdom of God.

He was "the Saviour of the world" (John 4:42). God wanted all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. To that end Jesus gave himself to provide a salvation from all sin for all men. In that he died for one, he died for all. Contrary to our superficial thinking, there never was a distinction in his mind between home and foreign missions. To Jesus it was all world evangelism.

Nay, alone I am a weak creature, having no strength or might in me; yet in times past hath God made me a great vessel of wrath and a sword of deliverance. And I trust, shall do so again.

I am Solomon Kane." The voice was resonant and powerful. "Are you prepared to meet your God?" "Why, Monsieur," Le Loup answered, bowing, "I assure you I am as ready as I ever will be. I might ask Monsieur the same question." "No doubt I stated my inquiry wrongly," Kane said grimly. "I will change it: Are you prepared to meet your master, the Devil?

There is no god but evil; no lite but darkness; no hope but doom—

At her shriek Conan shot erect, teeth gleaming, sword lifted. "The statues! The statues! – oh my God, the statues are coming to life!

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.