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God Quotes by Saint Augustine
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
- O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the…
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- God is best known in not knowing him.
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
- Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is…
- Woman does not possess the image of God in herself but only when taken together with the male who is her head, so that the…
- The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or…
- Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
- We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
- True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth...…
- Men go forth to wonder at the height of mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the ocean, the course of…
- You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'
- Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to…
- God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more…
More God Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- If there is a God, he is a malign thug. — Mark Twain
- To whom God will, there be the victory. — William Shakespeare
- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- One of the great thing that A Christian can do is to draw closer to GOD inspite of all the hindrances. I… — Pacifiersucker
- 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