- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
God Quotes
On faith, prayer and finding strength each day.
These devotional quotes speak to prayer, trust and the comfort of believing God supplies the strength needed for hard seasons rather than a life free of pain altogether. For more, see our Faith quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
- Ignorance
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
- Frequent
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- Nov 07, 2020
The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
- Clearest
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
- Exalted
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God's forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020