God Quotes - Page 91

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will.

For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.

Each of us is a masterpiece of God's creation

Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest!

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.

It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.

The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

There is no place where God is not.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.

If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.

The true word of God is written in our heart.

God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him.