What Is God Quotes

God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

The world appears very little to a soul that contemplates the greatness of God.

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great.

The giant in front of you is never bigger than the God who lives in you.

When you care more about what others think of you than what God knows about you, you've lost perspective on what really matters.

God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.

The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

Anyone who truly walks with God, walks humbly. The closer we draw near to Him, the more we behold His majesty!

The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.

We don't get to decide who God is.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

The soul must long for God in order to be set aflame by God's love; but if the soul cannot yet feel the longing, then it must long for the longing. To long for the longing is also from God.

A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others.

God doesn't owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I've found is that explanations don't comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

A new year is a gift from God, a part of the Divine nature of God.

We don't know what will happen tomorrow, but one thing is guaranteed-God's overarching care for His children. We can be sure enough of that. In a world where nothing is sure, He is sure.

Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

A bad day is just a day when you have been thinking more negative thoughts than positive ones. What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.

Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

Well may we say 'God save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General'.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

Concepts create idols of God, of whom only wonder can tell us anything.

Everyone has his own imagination of God. It is best if everyone is left to his own imagination.

The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

If [God] has work for me to do, I cannot die.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

The perfect world for me is to find some sort of inner peace. I believe that a man that walks with God can walk anywhere.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.

Perhaps it is God's will to lead the people of South Africa through defeat and humiliation to a better future and a brighter day.