Quotes on God

Your mind was made to know and love God.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. Our love of the Lord will govern the claims for our affection, the demands on our time, the interests we pursue, and the order of our priorities.

It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

There is a crack in everything God has made

Are we in love with God or just His stuff?

Is the god the source, or is the god a human manner of conceiving of the force and energy that supports the world? In our tradition God is a male. This male and female differentiation is made, however, within the field of time and space, the field of duality. If God is beyond duality, you cannot say that God is a "He." You cannot say God is a "She." You cannot say God is an "It." (18)

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.