Quotation About God II

God is great, and therefore he will be sought: he is good, and therefore he will be found. ~ John Jay


God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a divine purpose behind everything -- and therefore a divine presence in everything. ~ Neale Donald Walsch


Those without love have known nothing of God, for God is love. ~ 1 John 4:8


The whole meaning of our existence and the one consuming desire of the heart of God is that we should let ourselves be loved. ~ Ruth Burrows


All emotions, all human activities, and all spheres of life have deep roots in the mysteries of the soul, and therefore are holy. ~ Thomas Moore


To receive the love of God is to recognize it is all around us, above us, and beneath us; speaking to us through every person, every flower, every trial and situation. Stop knocking on the door: You are already inside! ~ Richard Rohr


I believe in God, who is for me spirit, love, the principle of all things. ... I believe that the reason for life is for each of us simply to grow in love. I believe that this growth in love will contribute more than any other force to establish the Kingdom of God on earth. ~ Leo Tolstoy


All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God. ~ Hannah More


Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. ~ Mignon McLaughlin


Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are. ~ Meister Eckhart


We could not seek God unless He were seeking us. ~ Thomas Merton


To accept the responsibility of being a child of God is to accept the best that life has to offer you. ~ Stella Terril Mann


Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. ~ Eileen Caddy


The starting point in the religious experience is wonder. ~ Seymour Cohen


Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness. ~ Julian of Norwich


The highest point a man can attain is not knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! ~ Nikos Kazantzakis


Awe precedes faith; it is at the root of faith. We must grow in awe in order to reach faith. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel


God is present in the confusion and dislocation of the world. One encounters God not by turning one's back on that world but by plunging into it with the faith that the divine-human encounter occurs in teh midst of the encounter of human with human, especially in the struggle to create signs of the coming of God's reign of peace and justice. ~ Harvey Cox


God is greater than my mind and my heart, and what is really happening in the house of prayer is not measurable in terms of human success and failure. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen