The Will Of God Quotes

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

How does our will become sanctified? By conforming itself unreservedly to that of God.

Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.

God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for He never gives us two moments together.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

Is evolution just another name for God?

So many creeds like the weeds in the sod - so many temples, and only one God.

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

When we run ahead of God, we run into trouble.

The closer I get to God, the blacker the little sins appear

I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

God always does His new things in the same old way.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Do you believe in God?" "Which one?

The reason you don't get to know God is because you're afraid. You're afraid of the immensity.

Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.

God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

Everything is God. Everything is light. It is only when we live in illusions, when there are shadows in our mind that we are afraid.

All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.

Life is light and consciousness. Beyond this world and other worlds, beyond time and space and dimension, beyond what we call duality, is God

It's only with that absolute humility and purity that you can make friends with God; because, otherwise, you're just too busy with all your desires.

If you hate yourself and your desires, well, you know, God is your desires and God is your self. As long as you hate God, you'll never realize God.

Heaven is a state of awareness. Hell is a state of awareness.

God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.

You are god. To be conscious of that not just from the point of view of the human form, to be endless and beginningless perfect being, is to be enlightened.

To think that God is compassionate is a terrible mistake. To think that God is wrathful is equally stupid. God isn't emotional. You are. To superimpose your emotions on infinity is typically human.

It's up to you to avail yourself to knowledge. Knowledge doesn't need you. The idea of a compassionate God was formulated, obviously, by someone who didn't want to do any work.

Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.

The one thing you can give God that will truly impress God is freindship. God is an eternal companion who is with you all the time - never judges, just is.