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God Quotes



"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."



"It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name."


"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"


"And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning."


"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."


"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."


"I do get angry some time, but if I let that feeling take over it would only cloud my thinking and disable me from making the right decision when it counts the most. I just try to think about my mother, children, God, and of course my freedom."


"The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's."



"There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God."


"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."


"I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson."


"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."


"You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God."



"God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter."
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"It's always nice when you do something and it's well received as opposed to the other way which God knows happens to everybody. When the good times come around, you take a deep breath, appreciate it, but not take it too seriously."


"One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God."


"You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion."


"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."


"If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself."



"I find myself thinking: Oh God, now what? I always have to have a new plan, otherwise I get very, very bored."


"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people."


"The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification."


"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."



"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."


"God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit."


"You cannot be this successful without having God on your side."


"He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone."
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