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God Quotes by Alexander MacLaren
- Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was…
- The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had…
- Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
- In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave…
- He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
- The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose…
- The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love…
- You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion…
- If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.
- Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He…
- To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy,…
- If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and…
- So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the…
- Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place…
- The world takes its notions of God from the people who say that they belong to God's family. They read us a great deal more…
- God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of…
- In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided…
- Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.
- Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the…
- If life has not made you by God's grace, through faith, holy...think you, will death without faith do it? The cold waters of that narrow…
- Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi