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- God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.
- Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
- God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his…
- Without the Spirit we can neither love God nor keep His commandments.
- Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a…
- Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God's will…
- God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
- For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
- The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the…
- The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than…
- A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by…
- Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
- Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
- Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If…
- If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
- In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept…
- That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you…
- If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are…
- He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which…
- God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
- Every infinity... is made finite to God.
- Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is…
- Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down…
- We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
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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