Quotes about God
To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.
- Henri Nouwen
It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
- Henri Nouwen
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.
- Henri Nouwen
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.
- Henri Nouwen
Ask yourself, 'How did God bless me today?' If you do that long enough and with faith, you will find yourself remembering blessings.
- Henry B. Eyring
We help God's children best by providing ways to build faith in Jesus Christ and in His restored gospel when they are young.
- Henry B. Eyring
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
- Henry B. Eyring
The ideal God holds for us is to form families in the way most likely to lead to happiness and away from sorrow.
- Henry B. Eyring
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
- Henry David Thoreau
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants.
- Henry David Thoreau