God Quotes - Page 147

The source of faith is the Word of God.

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.

The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom.

You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?

It must be God first, God second, and God third

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.

The being we call god is merely a pawn working for a powerful and rational force in some far-off galaxy. This force is trying to weed out people who are irrational by seeing who would be stupid enough to believe in his god illusion so easily. Those that believe in this illusion, he will send to eternal damnation and he will deliver the rational beings, those who stoically refused to believe in a god, to heaven.

Life can show up no other way than that way in which you perceive it.

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

God is the Creator God, he doesn't want to say, "Okay, creation was very good, but I'm scrapping it." He wants to say, "Creation is so good that I'm going to rescue it."

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others.

Holiness is doing God's will with a smile.

I don’t want to talk about loving God. I want to actually love God.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.