God Quotes (7398 Quotes)




    God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign He's still on the throne.

    I definitely appreciate opportunities in life more than anything else after going through that. God has a way of getting your attention. I didn't know if I'd ever play basketball again. I'm very thankful.



    It shall be no crime in the weak, nor in the sick, nor in those who do not find what they should spend (to stay behind), so long as they are sincere to Allah and His Apostle there is no way (to blame) against the doers of good and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful Nor in those who when they came to you that you might carry them, you said I cannot find that on which to carry you they went back while their eyes overflowed with tears on account of grief for not finding that which they should spend.


    A disciple once complained, 'You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us.' The master replied, 'How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and then chewed it up for you before giving it to you' If your heart is straight with God, then every creature will be to you a mirror of life and a book of holy doctrine.




    In the third watch of the night, O my merchant friend, the blind and ignorant person gathers poison. He is entangled in emotional attachment to his wife and sons, O my merchant friend, and deep within him, the waves of greed are rising up. The waves of greed are rising up within him, and he does not remember God.

    When you are under the power of sexual desire, anger and worldly attachment, or a greedy miser in love with your wealth if you have committed the four great sins and other mistakes even if you are a murderous fiend who has never taken the time to listen to sacred books, hymns and poetry - if you then come to remember the Supreme Lord God, and contemplate Him, even for a moment, you shall be saved.

    God puts the right people together. We want clothes in decent shape and suitcases and backpacks to carry stuff around in, canned goods, bottled water. Our goal is to leave Sunday for Jackson, Mississippi...We chose that because no emergency workers have showed up, but we're hoping for three vans full.




    I look back at the past eight years and can't believe I've persevered, ... But I've learned that only God can give you the sweet life. And I don't regret one day of it.


    Romanticism may not inaccurately be described as a conviction that the world is an Englischer Garten on a grand scale. The God of the seventeenth century, like its gardeners, always geometrized the God of Romanticism was one in whose universe things grew wild and without trimming and in all the rich diversity of their natural shapes. The preference for irregularity, the aversion from that which is wholly intellectualized ... which were eventually to invade the intellectual life of Europe at all points, made their first modern appearance on a grand scale in the eighteenth century in the form of the new fashion in pleasure gardens.

    Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.




    'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner.... 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast,' replied Ethan Brand.... 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God.'

    After Hurricane Katrina, my wife and I, like so many others, were going to help, but we wondered what the best way to help was, ... We went through Hurricane Floyd here, so we knew that a few years later there were people still living in trailers. That stuff is so terrible. So we decided to put our energy not into the post immediate stress, but rather the stress that sets in a week later when 'Oh my God. We have no house, no job, your school is gone.' Those kinds of things.



    Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

    The Messenger of God was asked, 'What is the greatest vice of man' He said, 'You must not ask me about vice, but ask about virtue' and he repeated this three times, after which he said, 'Know ye The worst of men is a bad learned man, and a good learned man is the best.'



    What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona... I understand what it is to be vulnerable, and I understand what it is to be strong. So anybody who bashes 'sentimental' is missing it. I've seen the toughest guys in the world cry. That macho thing is an old folktale. I'm not afraid of it at all.


    I couldn't believe it. In Portugal every foreign manager or player, if he is just a little good, we make him God. I was stunned so I'm sorry if I seemed arrogant but I don't think I was arrogant. And from that point it was a big challenge because if I didn't succeed like I did in the first year these guys were all waiting for me.







    I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

    ... Ibn Arabi distinguishes between Allah as God in general and Rabb as the particular Lord, personalized in an individualized and undivided relation with his vassal of love. This individualized relationship on both sides is the foundation of the mystic and chivalric ethic of the fedel d'amore in the service of the personal Lord whose divinity depends on the adoration of his faithful vassal.... It is the passion that the fedele d'amore feels for his Lord which reveals the Lord to Himself. And this always individually, in an 'alone to alone,' which is something very different from universal logic or from a collective participation, because only the knowledge which the fedele has of his Lord is the knowledge which this personal Lord has of him.

    The holders back from among the believers, not having any injury, and those who strive hard in Allah's way with their property and their persons are not equal Allah has made the strivers with their property and their persons to excel the holders back a (high) degree, and to each (class) Allah has promised good and Allah shall grant to the strivers above the holders back a mighty reward (High) degrees from Him and protection and mercy, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.


    Then your hearts hardened after that, so that they were like rocks, rather worse in hardness and surely there are some rocks from which streams burst forth, and surely there are some of them which split asunder so water issues out of them, and surely there are some of them which fall down for fear of Allah, and Allah is not at all heedless of what you do.



    Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our sake He has prayed, the Well-Beloved, For our sake He has spoken, He has sung, The Word was with God.




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