Quotes about god
god play miracle
The world is the ring of his spells, And the play of his miracles. Ralph Waldo Emerson
god eden apples
Silent rushes the swift Lord Through ruined systems still restored, Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless, Plants with worlds the wilderness; Waters with tears of ancient sorrow Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow. House and tenant go to ground, Lost in God, in Godhead found.
god country past
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.
god nature men
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
god brother jesus
In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.
god art doe
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.
god courage men
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.
god faith men
Men have come to speak of the revelation as somewhat long ago given and done, as if God were dead. The injury to faith throttles the preacher; and the goodliest of institutions becomes an uncertain and inarticulate voice.
god sweet numbers
Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made--no matter how indirectly--to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?
god brother doors
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
god heart fire
When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with His presence.
god fool savages
When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.
god lying world
Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.
god rose soul
When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are.
god self grace
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
god parcel
I am a part and parcel of God.
god names lasts
God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.
god running littles
Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.
god pay
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else.
god cobwebs moss
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb.
god cracks made
There is a crack in everything God has made
god reason command
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God. Thomas Aquinas
god moving hands
Whatever is in motion must be put in motion by another. If that by which it is put in motion be itself put in motion, then this also must needs be put in motion by another, and that by another again. But this cannot go on to infinity, because then there would be no first mover, and, consequently, no other mover; seeing that subsequent movers move only inasmuch as they are put in motion by the first mover; as the staff moves only because it is put in motion by the hand. Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.
god soul world
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
god sorry book
(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God. Therese of Lisieux
god jesus children
Do not fear to tell Jesus that you love Him even without feeling it. That is the way to force Jesus to help you, to carry you like a little child too feeble to walk.
god needs imperfect
How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.
god speak felt
I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.
god acceptable only-love
It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.
god rose showers
I will send a shower of roses.
god jesus our-love
He [Jesus] has no need of our works but only of our love.
god soul entering
(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.
god love-you i-love-him
(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!