Top 1200 Seeking God Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.

Self-evidently, dangerous climate change will not emerge from a normal scientific process of truth seeking.

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.

The majority of immigrants are in search of a better life for their families or are seeking safety by leaving violent and corrupt countries.

Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life?

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

I'm not outright seeking stuff. Because all I want to do is done. I bought my mother a nice house and pretty dress.

Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

Every man possesses that which is according to the image of God, for the gifts of God are irrevocable (Rom. 11:29). But only a few ? those who are virtuous and holy, and have imitated the goodness of God to the limit of human powers ? possess that which is according to the likeness of God.

Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

I would not invest in a Trump hate wall. We don't need to be protected from immigrants that are coming here seeking asylum and refuge.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

From Genesis to Revelation, here's the central message: God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God, the Triune God is in control of all things, period.

Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever.

Anyone seeking a real solution in Israel and Palestine rejects the us-versus-them mentality entirely.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

We are not to make the Torah into God Himself, nor the Bible into a "paper pope." The Bible is only the result of the Word of God. We can experience the return of the Word of God in the here and now, the perpetual return of the actual, living, indisputable Word of God that makes possible the act of witnessing, but we should never think of the Bible as any sort of talisman or oracle constantly at our disposal that we need only open and read to be in relation to the Word of God and God Himself.

Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. But it is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief; because your belief projects what you think God ought to be, what you think ought to be true. If you believe God is love, God is good, God is this or that, your very belief prevents you from understanding what is God, what is true.

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

Stop the mental chatter about what's wrong and what's not complete. There is a presence of Love that is seeking to express itself through you.

In an age of information overload ... the last thing any of us needs is more information about God. We need the practice of incarnation, by which God saves the lives of those whose intellectual assent has turned them dry as dust, who have run frighteningly low on the Bread of Life, who are dying to know more God in their bodies. Not more about God. More God.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.

Today, we realize there are those actively seeking to harm us, to destroy our infrastructure and take lives.

There's nothing spectacular about Prophet T.B Joshua. He is just like every other human being. But if there is any difference, it is the grace of God; the righteousness of God. It is a product of the grace of God. So, I am a product of the grace of God.

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

Sending genuine refugees to face persecution in order to dissuade others from seeking to come here is plainly illegal.

Our time on earth and our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, and resources are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to our care and management. We are stewards of whatever God gives us. This concept of stewardship begins with the recognition that God is the owner of everything and everyone on earth. ... We never actually own anything during our brief stay on earth. God just loans the earth to us while we're here. It was God's property before you arrived, and God will loan it to someone else after you die.

The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

You must flow with the will of God, in the service of God, to obtain the power of God.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

I had tried, as I thought as a nun, to open myself to God and God seemed totally uninterested in me. The heavens remained closed and opaque. I now realize, of course, that I had a very, very inadequate idea of God. I was expecting clouds to part, a little sort of whisper in my ear, and of course, that's not what God is. God is not another being; we are talking about something much more profound.

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

The love of God is no human projection, but the wrath of God is. In fact, what we call the wrath of God is really the love of God experienced by a fool.

There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

I think very few people in Canada are seeking - to regulate any public expressions of individuals' religions.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

If you delight more in God’s gifts than in God Himself, you are practically setting up another God above Him, and this you must never do.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit - and abide there.

If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

I'll be seeking professional help with regards to alcohol and, until myself and the club feel this is under control, I'll be off the drink.

The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.