Quotes about God
The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.
— Thomas a Kempis
Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
— Thomas Adams
One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Resisting tyranny is obeying God.
— Thomas Jefferson
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
— Thomas Merton
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
— Thomas Paine
The all-important and crowning blessings of membership in the Church are those blessings which we receive in the temples of God
— Thomas Monson