God Quotes

I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can’t help but marvel.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no God besides the Self. One who knows the Self, knows God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One who knows the Self, knows God.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

~ Toni Sorenson

... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

~ Klavan

The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Great faith, Great spirit.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To live more for God and others one must die more to self and sin.

~ Orrin Woodward

If I so much as dare to intimately probe the reflection I see in the mirror, I am filled with the tormenting fear that I might be repulsed. God invites us to boldly probe the reflection in the mirror so that we might be released.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

At some point I hope to have grown sufficiently in both stature and wisdom to understand that I cannot deliver myself from myself, and that God alone can save me from me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Is God satisfied with you or could it be that God looks at you and fails to see a man, only a bunch of flesh Full of self, and missing out on the purpose for his or her creation? What does God see, think and feel when he looks at you?

~ Sunday Adelaja

See the Divinity in others and you will find it within yourself.

~ Ka Chinery

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

~ Vivian Amis

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To understand God we must understand ourselves. If I give you an apple and ask you, “What is that?” you reply, “An apple.”“How do you know it’s an apple?”“Because it just is.”“How did it get to be an apple?”“It came from an apple.”“Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ you can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God.

~ Toni Sorenson

everything that is in the world, there is a correspondence on every level of existence. The macrocosm is a reflection of the microcosm, and the way we experience the outer world is a reflection of our inner state: it is our mirror. If we are in harmony with ourselves, then we will be in harmony with the outer world, i.e. God. If we change from within, then everything around us also changes. I certainly knew how true this was.

~ Kristiane Backer

We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.

~ Jen Wilkin

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created....perfection.

~ Vivian Amis

The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more tenuous this becomes, until in the end the relation to God Himself threatens to become a relation to Nothingness.

~ William Barrett

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

~ Alberto Caeiro

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.

~ John Smith Jr.

Crime begins with God. It will end with man, when he finds God again. Crime is everywhere, in all the fibres and roots of our being. Every minute of the day adds fresh crimes to the calendar, both those which are detected and punished, and those which are not. The criminal hunts down the criminal. The judge condemns the judger. The innocent torture the innocent. Everywhere, in every family, every tribe, every great community, crimes, crimes, crimes. War is clean by comparison. The hangman is a gentle dove by comparison. Attila, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan reckless automatons by comparison. Your father, your darling mother, your sweet sister: do you know the foul crimes they harbor in their breasts? Can you hold the mirror to iniquity when it is close at hand? Have you looked into the labyrinth of your own despicable heart? Have you sometimes envied the thug for his forthrightness? The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you. The source of it is God whom you place outside, above and beyond. Crime is identification, first with God, then with your own image.

~ Henry Miller

Because we are made in God's image, in fleeing from a relationship with a loving God, we are also running from being our most authentic selves.

~ Kathleen Norris

When you submit yourself to God and obey Him, you allow Him to do what He desires in your life. You make it possible for Him to lead you wherever He wants to use you.

~ Jim George

The flight away from self to God is not a forgetting self in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminates the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The flight away from self to God is not a forgetting self in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminate the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and from what the human most irreducibly is that it is a question of starting off again. From the human as it objectively is before it starts to construct a language and a thinking which help to distance it from its beginning, from its prematureness without thinking it in the totality of its being.

~ Luce Irigaray

Then he realized: 'I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.' In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

~ Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Do not compare yourself with anybody. Compare yourself with yourself, for yourself and by yourself. We are all uniquely pottered and purposed by our creator!

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of the inexistance to the existentialist, formless to the form, Creator to the Creature, one to the every being, absolute to the inabsolute and vis-á-vis, soforth every single thing is temporary, non-existed, so do I, the dream that I dreamed off is simply a 'lie and impermanent too' same as in the mortal world whatever I do experience.

~ Upanishad

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

~ Kelly Minter

Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.

~ Michael Ondaatje

God created you for His high purpose, discovering and understanding that that purpose is important

~ Sunday Adelaja

Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it

~ Sunday Adelaja

God expects fruits from every calling, every talent and every gift

~ Sunday Adelaja

If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a friend anymore.

~ Craig Groeschel

We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that incessantly says the ‘possible’ is anything but ‘probable.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

God gives much grace for great work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita