What Is God Quotes

Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Service to man is service to god

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

God has no hands or feet or voice except ours and through these He works.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

It will be as well, I think, to explain these locutions of God, and to describe what the soul feels when it receives them.

Alas, O Lord, to what a state dost Thou bring those who love Thee!

Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.

God didn't make junk.

I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.

The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

I will send a shower of roses.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

Since the age of three I have refused God nothing.

For man plans, but God arranges.

God deceiveth thee not.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

Our dependence upon God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations.

Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

He rides pleasantly enough whom the grace of God carries.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The closer we are to God, the closer we are to those who are close to him.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one's neighbor.

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.

A humble man is not afraid of failure. In fact, he is not afraid of anything, even himself, since perfect humility implies perfect confidence in the power of God.

O God, my God, the night has values that the day never dreamed of.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!