Towards God Quotes
55 quotes by 49 authors
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the…
— Annie Besant
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What is important is not victory or the position of a victor, but rather the labor of striving towards God and devotion to Him.
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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The power of God is effective when a person asks for the help from God, acknowledging his own weakness and sinfulness. This is why humility…
— John of Shanghai and San Francisco
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The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is…
— Oswald Chambers
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A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously…
— Charles Brent
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
— C.S. Lewis
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...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
— Meher Baba
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Our nature is to worship, but unless that element is directed towards God it becomes "a senseless impersonal force, carrying us away in its momentum.…
— Olivier Clement
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Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son…
— Maximilian Kolbe
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When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards…
— Pope John Paul II
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The vast majority of mankind never gives a thought of gratitude towards God for all His care and blessings.
— Donald Barnhouse
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[F]or avoiding the extremes of despotism or anarchy . . . the only ground of hope must be on the morals of the people. I…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
— John Calvin
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A hint - don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which…
— Paul Gauguin
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Before prayer, endeavor to realize whose Presence you are approaching, and to whom you are about to speak. We can never fully understand how we…
— Teresa of Avila
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Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers;…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Take heed of driving so hard after this world, as to hinder thyself and family from those duties towards God, which thou art by grace…
— John Bunyan
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Towards himself a Christian should have a broken spirit, but towards God it should be one of rejoicing always in Him. He rejoices not for…
— Watchman Nee
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The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a love of order,…
— Gouverneur Morris
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Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who Wrote These Towards God Quotes
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