Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: god

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

May God protect me from gloomy saints.

I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

What God hath wrought?

You're a song written by the hands of God.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

The way to be with God in every season is to strive to be near Him every week and each day.