Quotes about god
god simple intellectual
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
god reflection men
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God. Joseph Campbell
god men thinking
We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion... Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
god men organization
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
god-love persons ifs
If u cannot love a person whom you see,then how can you love God whom you have never seen.. Mother Teresa
god holiness gods-will
Holiness is doing God's will with a smile. Mother Teresa
god filled
We must free ourselves to be filled by God. Even God cannot fill what is full. Mother Teresa
god prayer speak
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us. Mother Teresa
god empty
even God could do nothing for someone already full. You have to be completely empty to let Him in to do what He will. Mother Teresa
god faith successful
God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful. Mother Teresa
god-has-a-plan share plans
God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work. Minnie Pearl
god lonely holiday
People sometimes ask me if I do not feel lonely on holidays. How can I feel lonely when I live in the constant awareness of God's presence? I love and I enjoy being with people, but when I am alone I enjoy being alone with God. Peace Pilgrim
god peace oneness
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. Peace Pilgrim
god morning real
God's love is as objective as light. Because the sun in a sense is light, or the source of light rather than being lit, it really gives its light to the earth. And because the earth really receives light from the sun, it is really transformed every morning from darkness to light. Just as objectively, because God is love, God really gives love to us. And because we receive real life-changing love from God, we are really transformed from darkness to light. Peter Kreeft
god destiny eternity
God is not pre or post anything. He is present to everything. ... There is not predestination but destination, not predestiny but destiny. This follows from divine omniscience and eternity. Peter Kreeft
god spiritual soul
The Church is God's Bride. All the saints and mystics say the ultimate purpose of human life, the highest end for which we were made, is the Spiritual Marriage. This is not socially relative; it is eternal. And in it, the soul is spiritually impregnated by God, not vice versa. That is the ultimate reason why God must always be he to us, never she. Religion is essentially heterosexual and therefore fruitful. Peter Kreeft
god sake
Only God is to be loved for His own sake. Everything else is to be loved for God's sake. Peter Kreeft
god caring understanding
God is a person [in Christ]. A person can be known only by personal understanding, not impersonal understanding. Personal understanding takes place through love, caring, willingness, intimacy, and relationship. Peter Kreeft
god school world
You see, God just will not let us flunk out of His school of love. He insists on remedial lessons until we get it right. For this whole world is a school set up by Love Himself to teach us to love. Peter Kreeft
god wise symphony
If we turn to the divine Conductor and follow the wise and loving baton that is His will, His Word, then the music of our life will be a symphony. Peter Kreeft
god gods-love
To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate. Peter Kreeft
god wrath fool
The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool. Peter Kreeft
god running light
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness. Peter Kreeft
god faces wraith
God's wraith is really only the face of love refused. Peter Kreeft
god writing men
Christ is the Word of God in person. The Bible is the Word of God in writing. Both are the Word of God in the words of men. Both have a human nature and a divine nature. Peter Kreeft
god believe lovers
When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin. Peter Kreeft
god color white
Like white light refracted through a prism and split into many colors, God's eternal love-nature, expressed through the prism of time, becomes God's multicolored love story. History is His story. Peter Kreeft
god destiny faces
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face. Peter Kreeft
god faith peace
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
god-love accepting humans
How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being? Phylicia Rashad
god immortal-life life-is
Everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense! Rabindranath Tagore
god mean joy
It means that God's Creation has not its source in any necessity; it comes from his fullness of joy; it is his love that creates, therefore in Creation is his own revealment. Rabindranath Tagore
god creating
God finds himself by creating. Rabindranath Tagore