What Is God Quotes

We are given an autonomy and the real autonomy... and God would much rather we went freely to hell than compel us to go to heaven.

People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened off the tenth story, and he wasn't so sure God supplied parachutes.

Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.

[The pioneers] woke up each morning with clearly defined purposes and goals that everyone understood: to serve God.

I am optimistic about the future. Brethren, for our part, we must remain steadfast in hope, work with all our strength, and trust in God.

All are called to be what in the reality of God they are already.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?

We have grown so accustomed to the idea of divine love...that we no longer sense the awe that God's coming should awaken in us.

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

God is not free from human beings but for them.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Principles are only tools in the hands of God; they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All restlessness, all worry, and anxiety flee before him.

We are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

... there are not two realities, but only one reality, and that is the reality of God, which has become manifest in the Christ event/redemption and creation.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

The cross is God's truth about us, and therefore it is the only power thatcanmakeustruthful.Whenwe know the cross we are no longer afraid of the truth.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world.

In sharing how God is changing our lives, we find the lives of others changed as well.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

God has done more than I could ask or even imagine on more occasions than I could ever recount. His ways are higher than my ways. My ideas simply cannot compete with his.

Even if God never did another good thing in our lives, we could spend the rest of this life praising Him for what He has already done.

Let us not see today's troubles as a reason to give up; let us see them as an opportunity for God to deliver.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

God gave me the talent and I endeavor to give it back to Him with each new idea.

The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

Brazil is where I belong, the place that feels like home. They love their family, their country and God, and are not afraid to let anybody know it.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

People are looking for something a little more stable; people are feeling like they need to get closer to God.

I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.