Quotes about God

How can the sun and the moon praise God as the prophet exhorts them to do? By perfectly carrying out the role God has given them. Thus they render Him great praise. Behold, therefore, a wonderful means by which you can praise God all day: do your duty and whatever else you are given to do well.

Tear your heart away from everything else; then seek God and you will surely find him.

The love of God does not consist in tears or in this delight ad tenderness, which for the greater part we desire and find consolation in; but it consists in serving with justice and fortitude of soil and in humility. Without such service it seems to me we would be receiving everything and giving nothing.

Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

Let's make the best possible use of our feet first and learn to know ourselves. And yet it seems to me that we will never know ourselves unless we seek to know God. Glimpsing his greatness, we recognize our own powerlessness; gazing upon his purity, we notice where we are impure; pondering his humility, we see how far from humble we are.

God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.

Just as the sun shines on all the trees and flowers as if each were the only one on earth, so does God care for all souls in a special manner.

My God, how good Thou art! How well dost Thou suit the trial to our strength!

Can a victim of love find anything her Spouse sends terrible?

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.