Quotes About God

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.

We curse the US government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaver. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance." (from the journals of Margaret Kelly)

Prayer is love-centered. It is not so much belief in God that matters, but love of God, and similarly love of others, including love of enemies.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

Don't let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God.

Faithfulness to God requires your obedience, even when it's difficult.

When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

práctica de oración que nos ayude a encontrar a Dios en la vida diaria y a responder con más generosidad a sus dones y bendiciones.

God's connection to the poor and suffering is so deep that a response of compassion is insufficient. What might this response be?

Necesito la gracia de Dios para hacer algo que valga la pena. Ni siquiera puedo levantarme a la mañana y enfrentar el día sin su ayuda.

No hay zarzas ardientes ni voces ensordecedoras que vienen del monte Sinaí en el examen. Dios aparece en el tranquilo susurro de nuestros recuerdos, pensamientos y sentimientos guiados por el Espíritu. ¡Qué realidad tan maravillosa!

No hay nada en nuestra vida que sea tan insignificante como para no merecer la atención de Dios.

Nothing human is merely human," writes the theologian Ronald Modras. "No common labor is merely common. Classrooms, hospitals, and artists' studios are sacred spaces. No secular pursuit of science is merely secular." Everything that deepens our humanity deepens our knowledge of God.

The examen is an immediate solution to the problem of what do Ipray about? The answer is: everything that's happened to you today. You might have the impression that your everyday life is the dreary same old, same old. It isn't. Daily life is rich and meaningful. Every encounter, every challenge, every disappointment, and every delight is a place where God can be found.

Los libros, las ideas y los consejos prudentes son importantes, pero el lugar en el que fundamentalmente encontramos a Dios es en lo que nosotros mismos experimentamos.

The whole prayer is an exercise in finding God. It assumes that God is present in our daily lives, and that his presence can be detected. If you think God is far away, pray the examen.

Millennia of warfare and millions of deaths have resulted from religious disputes over exactly who God is and which people meet God's approval.

Jesus was the Divine-Human Word of God.  He spoke the written Word of God.  He was the expression and manifestation of God.

I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

Jesus proclaimed, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God" (Matt. 5:9). Martin Luther King Jr. reminded us, "True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."46

God created man in His own image," declares Genesis 1:27; "in the image of God He created him." What is the heart of man but a mirror image of the One who breathed it into existence? The mirror may be cracked and marred, but it has not lost its capacity to reflect its Maker. The soul possesses no absolute life of its own. In spite of itself, it bears witness to its dependency upon Another.

She believes] in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God [Against Heresies 1:10:1 (c. A.D. 189)].