“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”
Questions about God have occupied human minds for as long as human minds have existed. These quotes approach the divine from every angle — faith, doubt, reverence, and the honest wrestling that happens when you take the biggest questions seriously.
“God's finger touched him, and he slept.”
“Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.”
“I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.”
“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”
“The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.”
“Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.”
“God has entrusted me with myself.”
“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”
“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
“Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.”
“In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.”
“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.”
“God's delays are not God's denials.”
“For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.”
“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”
“Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.”