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God Quotes by Mechthild of Magdeburg
- That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor…
- The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things.…
- The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.
- A Light of utmost splendor glows on the eyes of my soul. Therein have I seen the inexpressible ordering of all things, and recognized God's…
- God, give me by Your grace what You give to dogs by nature.
- Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How…
- If you love the justice of Jesus Christ more than you fear human judgment then you will seek to do compassion. Compassion means that if…
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- 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