Quotes about god
god profit seeking
If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.
god emptiness empty
To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God.
god soul word-of-god
Every creature is a word of God.
god faith spiritual
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. Mary Daly
god-is-love conversation truth-of-god
Because the truth of God is love, conversion to God is conversion to love. Pope Benedict XVI
god hands hatred
Let us put our hands today again at (God's) disposition and pray that he takes our hands to guide us. Let his hand take ours so we won't sink, but will serve life which is stronger than death, and love which is stronger than hatred. Pope Benedict XVI
god war land
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. Emmanuel Jal
god choices world
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will. John Haggai
god people honor
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit. John Hagee
god angel doors
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. John Donne
god faith christianity
As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else. John Donne
god eye men
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God. John Donne
god gnats worms
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. John Donne
god autumn moon
God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity. John Donne
godly people attention
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices. John Ortberg
godly people obeying-god
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God. John Ortberg
god jobs vacation
God is still in the business of coming down to earth: to this cubicle, this email, this room, this house, this job, this hospital room, this car, this bed, this vacation. Any place can become Bethel, the house of God. Cleveland, maybe. Or the chair you're sitting in as you read these words. John Ortberg
god night men
And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night... John Milton
god heart light
How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it. Leo Tolstoy
god believe soul
I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts. Leo Tolstoy
god men thinking
Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience. Leo Tolstoy
god christian religious
Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with. Joyce Meyer
god christian religious
One of the best ways to walk in love is to be a blessing to other people or simply to help them. Joyce Meyer
god tragedy way
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs. Joseph Stowell
god able enjoy
God is within you! You yourself are the creator. If you find that place within you from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life. Joseph Campbell
god army hell
Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army Joseph Campbell
god simple intellectual
God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that. Joseph Campbell
god reflection men
The mind of man, cleansed of secondary and merely temporal concerns, beholds with the radiance of a cleansed mirror a reflection of the rational mind of God. Joseph Campbell
god men thinking
We do not see God, but everywhere we see something divine; first and most typically in the center of a reasonable man, in the depth of a living human product. You can directly feel and think nature, the universe, but not the Godhead. Only the man among men can poetize and think divinely and live with religion... Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
god men organization
The symmetry and organization of history teaches us that mankind, during its existence and development, genuinely was and became an individual, a person. In this great personality of mankind, God became man. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
godlike exhibits
Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself. Juliet Marillier
god laughter blessing
Laughter is God's blessing. Joseph Prince
godly men secret
The secret behind every godly man and woman is their belief in the truth that they have been forgiven. ... Even when they say the wrong thing, do the wrong thing, or have a wrong thought, they continue to be forgiveness-conscious. Joseph Prince