God Quotes

By simple common sense I don’t believe in God, in none.

I would rather die for Christ than rule the whole earth.

With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.

Well, the good Lord and good luck must have been with me because I did exactly what I said I was going to do.

Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord’ means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

Some people say that without God, people would give themselves permission to do anything. [Yet] only with God, only with the view that God’s on your side, can people give themselves permission to do things that otherwise would be called satanic.