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God Quotes by John Powell
- There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times…
- We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.
- Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow
- A life of love is difficult, but it is not a bleak or unrewarding life. In fact, it is the only true human and happy…
- God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and…
- You just don't make decisions about what you're going to be like when you are old. I know that I am making that decision right…
- By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we…
- I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want…
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