God Quotes

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does.

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God.

If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship.

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but "the true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

So great was my joy in God that I took no heed of looking at the angels and the saints, because all their goodness and all their beauty was from Him and in Him.

That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Through the present moment, you have access to the power of life itself, that which has traditionally been called "God." As soon as you turn away from it, God ceases to be a reality in your life, and all you are left with is the mental concept of God, which some people believe in and others deny. Even belief in God is only a poor substitute for the living reality of God manifesting every moment of your life.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.