Quotes about God

All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

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.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things.

A lowly knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than the deep searching of a man's learnings. Not that learning is to be blamed, nor the taking account of anything that is good; but a good conscience and a holy life is better than all. And because many seek knowledge rather than good living, therefore they go astray, and bear little or no fruit.

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain.

If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the morning make a resolution and in the evening examine yourself on what you have said this day, what you have done and thought, for in these things perhaps you have often offended God and those about you.

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!

Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.