Will Of God Quotes

There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

Desire for God without doctrine is blind; doctrine without desire is empty.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes...dies.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

God's mercy is fresh and new every morning.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He's doing.

People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I fear God and respect God and love God.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Happiness for me is totally just being at peace knowing that, everything I'm doing, God is pleased with that. It's complete peace for me.

I think Christianity is the same as Buddhism and Hinduism - whenever a religion begins to say that these are the things you have to do to be loved by God, you have a religion.

Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother.

If you don't believe God has forgiven you, you are actually saying that God needs to do more for your forgiveness, and that Jesus' sacrifice was not enough.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future, God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain, guilt and loneliness of our present life.

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.

Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me, but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.

If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.