Quotes about God

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past.

Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn.

Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

Live in the fields, and God will give you lectures on natural philosophy every day.

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.