Quotes about God

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Rather than accepting that we are the loving beings that He created, we have arrogantly thought that we could create ourselves, and then create God. Because we are angry and judgmental, we have projected those characteristics onto Him. We have made up a God in our image. But God remains who He is and always has been: the energy, the thought of unconditional love.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.