God Quotes - Page 125

The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the long haul, cover-up over confession, escapism over confrontation, conform over sacrifice, feeling over commitment, legality over justice, the body over the spirit, anger over forgiveness, man over God.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money.

We cannot be part-time Christians! We should seek to live our faith at every moment of every day.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.

Am I as spontaneously kind to God as I used to be, or am I only expecting God to be kind to me? Am I full of the little things that cheer His heart over me, or am I whimpering because things are going hardly with me? There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.

Trust God, and do the next thing.

Know with certainty that there is a God, and that there exists a world beyond this one - the world of souls.

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

No matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, God knows it. He is with you. He is going to pull you through.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.

if you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.

Invoke the Mercy of God and as milk returns not to the udder go not back to your wrongdoing." "Have compassion on yourself and on others and Infinite Compassion will be given to you." "In the name of Allah, All-Merciful, All Compassionate, bestow on me a Mercy that shall put me beyond the need of mercy from any other than Thee.

Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile.

Things can change in the blink of an eye!

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Discipline will never bring about love for God, but love for God will bring about discipline.

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.