Quotes about God

O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

You came clothed with the virtue of humility; and because God blessed your enterprises accordingly, you have stained yourself with the sin of pride.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

My life is too short, and God's work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Things out o' natur niver thrive: God A'mighty doesn't like 'em.

his power stretched through a narrow space, but he felt its effect the more intensely. He believed without effort in the peculiar work of grace within him, and in the signs that God intended him for special instrumentality.

Ah, Iddio non paga il Sabatol ('God does not pay on a Saturday')—the wages of men's sins often linger in their payment, and I myself saw much established wickedness of long-standing prosperity.

The roaring thunder of the law and the fear of the terror of judgment are both used to bring us to Christ, but the final victory culminating in our salvation is won through God's loving-kindness.

I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires.