God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
-Bible "Bible"
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
-Anne Lamott
Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed.
-Robert H. Schuller
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
-James H. Aughey
The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.
-Mignon McLaughlin
"The Second Neurotic's Notebook"
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-Voltaire
The sincere devotee loves God deeply whether he is non-active and silently meditating on God, or in the midst of a whirl of outer activities.
Everyone has in him something divine, something his own, a chance of perfection and strength in however small a sphere which God offers him to take or refuse. The task is to find it, develop it and use it.
To uphold righteousness, so supreme an act did he perform; he gave his head, but did not utter a word of sorrow. For the sake of righteousness, he did this great heroic deed; he laid down his life but not the principles… Guru Tegh Bahadur broke his earthly vase on the head of the Emperor of Delhi – and went to the abode of God.
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
-Joseph Roux
"Meditations of a Parish Priest”"