Quotes about 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. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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!
god giving want
I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.
god jesus heart
What offends Him and what wounds His Heart is the lack of confidence...Your heart is made to love Jesus, to love Him passionately...We have only the short moments of our life to love Jesus!
god sacrifice soul
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
god sacrifice love-is
Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.
god gratitude jesus
Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.
god lying opportunity
We must do everything we are obliged to do; give without reckoning, practice virtue whenever opportunity offers, constantly overcome ourselves, prove our love by all the little acts of tenderness and consideration we can muster. In a word, we must produce all the good works that lie within our strength - out of love for God.
god jesus greatness
Jesus does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
god way strife
There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God. Tertullian
god meaningful work
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams
god atheism mythology
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.