What Is God Quotes

What thou art, that thou art; that God knoweth thee to be and thou canst be said to be no greater.

First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will.

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

My life shines with God's radiant blessings when my heart is the color of joy

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

Be human in this most inhuman of ages; guard the image of man for it is the image of God.

Contemplative living is living in true relationship with oneself, God, others and nature, free of the illusions of separateness.

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God.

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are.

All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.

Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first.

The determining factor in our relationship with God is not our past but Christ's past.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor.

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

There must be a God because he made me.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

When I rely on my faith, I know God wants to reward and bless me but not because of some great act that I did but because of who He is.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they've really messed up...not the last.

Once God saves us He doesn't move us beyond the gospel, but He moves us more deeply into the gospel.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.