What Is God Quotes

Whoever you are, you've got to start from where you are. If you're a sailor, and only know sailor's language, well, write in it, for God's sake.

Whoever buys into the vision God has for the congregation develops an affinity for all that is going on.

If you provide the drive, dream, and vision, with God’s help, you can accomplish anything.

We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity. We would all be better off if we loved God and loved each other.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us more . . . And grace means there is nothing we can do to make God love us less

Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

Each elect soul ... possesses God directly and finds in that unique possession the fulfillment of his own individuality.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do. [Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.]

Art means: revealing God in everything that exists.

A thirst for the infinite is indelibly present in human beings. Man was created to have a relationship with God; we need him.

[Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.

Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly.

The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

Because He moves against faults, God is said to be angered, although He is moved by no disturbance of equanimity.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

In the Eucharistic Sacrifice the Church venerates the memory of Mary the ever Virgin Mother of God and the memory of Saint Joseph, because he fed Him whom the faithful must eat as the Bread of Life

If evils increase, the devotion of the People of God should also increase.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

If I were God - and I never understand why I'm not - I should say, "Shop around, I don't think you'll find a better bargain than here."

Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.

Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.

Calling means that everyone, everywhere, and in everything fulfills his or her (secondary) callings in response to God's (primary) calling.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

We think we understand another person's struggle until God reveals the same shortcomings in our lives.

There are many things that are perfectly legitimate, but if you are going to concentrate on God you cannot do them.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is.

Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.

It is a trap to presume that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do— God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself.

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do Thy will, O My God.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

There is a call to spiritual perseverance. A call not to hang on and do nothing, but to work deliberately, knowing with certainty that God will never be defeated.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

If God be my friend, I cannot be wretched.

There is a God within us, and we glow when He stirs us.

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.

God is within you. God is a nice feeling. He's the flowers and smells and the nice things in life.