Quotes about God
He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.
— St. Augustine
Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
— St. Augustine
Love God and do whatever you please, for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
— St. Augustine
Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
— St. Augustine
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
— St. Augustine
He cannot have God for his father who has not the Church for his Mother.
— St. Cyprian
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
— Teresa of Avila
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The security is in the realization that my life cannot extend beyond God's grace or capacity to redeem all things for his glory and my good.
— Sam Storms
Earthly joys are fragmented beams, but God is the sun. Earthly
— Sam Storms