Quotes on God

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.

Man in harmony with his Creator is sublime, and his action is creative; equally, once he separates himself from God and acts alone, he does not cease to be powerful, since this is the privilege of his nature, but his acts are negative and lead only to destruction.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

My father has been faithful to the calling that God gave him: that is, to preach the Gospel... He has presented Christ to every person that God has put before him.

Everyone is tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshiping the same god.

I would like the church to be a place where the questions of people are honored rather than a place where we have all the answers. The church has to get out of propaganda. The future will involve us in more interfaith dialogue. ... We cannot say we have the only truth.

Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives, and that's why it's so important not just to commemorate his life, but to study and try to live by the principles of that life.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

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

I always knew that I was called to do something. I didn't know what, but I finally rationalized after I met Martin - and it took a lot of praying to discover this - that this was probably what God had called me to do: to marry him.

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Every creature is a word of God.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

Jesus is much more concerned about shaking your foundations, giving you an utterly alternative self image, world image, and God image, and thus reframing your entire reality. Mere inspiration can never do this.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.