Loving God Quotes - Page 5

• The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.

  N. T. Wright

  Heart, Character, Window

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• I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

  Voltaire

  Friendship, Hate, Enemy

  "Déclaration de Voltaire". Note to his secretary, Jean-Louis Wagnière, February 28, 1778.

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• If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

  John Newton

  Study, Please, Knowing God

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.411

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• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

  Meister Eckhart

  Children, Joy, Soul

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Flower, Light

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• I am definitely questioning the atonement and trying to discover how we can see it in a different way. We've got this image of God who needs some sort of flesh, some sort of blood, that needs some sort of vengeance to pay for sin. My experience of a loving God who's asked me to love my enemies - this isn't a God that demands something before you are accepted. I think Jesus died because Jesus was inclusive. God is inclusive. I think that the idea of God somehow being separated from us was more man's idea.

  Jay Bakker

  Jesus, Men, Thinking

  "Jay Bakker Talks Faith, Doubt and Where the Church Has Gone Wrong". Interview with Nicola Menzie, www.christianpost.com. February 14, 2013.

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• The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

  Radhanath Swami

  Challenges, Age, Principles

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• The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images humans throughout history have projected onto God. In this way, the cross is at one and the same time the definitive revelation of the true loving God and the "crucifixion of the warrior god". And just as we should forever revolt against the sin and that was permanently put to death on the cross, so too followers of Jesus should forever revolt against the sinful warrior image of God that was permanently put to death on the cross.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Jesus, Warrior, Forever

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Children, Soul

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (2015). “How to Converse with God”, p.7, TAN Books

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• The soul's true greatness is in loving God and in humbling oneself in His presence, completely forgetting oneself and believing oneself to be nothing; because the Lord is great, but He is well-pleased only with the humble; He always opposes the proud.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Believe, Humility, Humble

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• My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

  John Vianney

  Sweet, Prayer, Children

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• He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

  Alice Cary

  Love, Men, Fellow Man

  Alice Cary (1866). “Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns”, p.73

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• (Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all those books...If I had read them, I would have broken my head, and I would have wasted precious time that I could have employed very simply in loving God.

  Therese of Lisieux

  God, Sorry, Book

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• We Americans have faith in ourselves, but not in ourselves alone. We do not know-we do not claim to know all the ways of Providence, yet we can trust in them, placing our confidence in the loving God behind all of life, and all of history.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Way, Claims

  Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered January 28, 2003

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• It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Perfection, Easy, Good And Bad

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• Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest that if the designs of creation have not here below been entirely frustrated, there should be found men who tend to their end in seeking and loving God. And nevertheless, because of human liberty, there should also be found other men who neglect God, their principle and their end, and yield to the seduction of created things. Such indeed is the spectacle which the history of the world unceasingly presents to us.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Yield, Perfect

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• God...should never have been expelled from America's schools. As we struggle to teach our children...we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer...so then can our sons and daughters.

  Ronald Reagan

  Daughter, Prayer, Children

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• Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

  Martin Luther

  Drink, Gods Will, Merry

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• There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Evil, World, Way

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• A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.

  Michael Newdow

  Thinking, People, Killing

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• Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Kindness, Grace, May

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• Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them.

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Blessed, Men

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• The violent portraits of God in Scripture have become one of the biggest obstacles to believers coming to faith. When we can show how these portraits bear witness not to a violent God, but to the non-violent loving God revealed on Calvary, these obstacles to believing in the inspiration of Scripture become one of the most compelling reasons for believing in the inspiration of Scripture.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Believe, Inspiration, Scripture

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• A good, all-loving god would not destroy his creations no matter how they act. He tells parents to love their children unconditionally. I say 'you first, God.'

  Ryan Hofmeister

  Children, Parent, Matter

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• What a loving God we serve! Not only has He prepared a heavenly dwelling for us, but His angels also accompany us as we transition from this world to the next.

  David Jeremiah

  Angel, Accompany Us, Dwelling

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