Inspirational Quotes on God

“We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.”

“Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

“God desires to be loved by men, although He needs them not; and men refuse to love God, though they need Him in an infinite degree.”

“The lovingkindness of the Lord is an essential part of Himself; His severity is accidental. One belongs to Himself, the other to external circumstances.”

“The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.”

“If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.”

“Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out of place.”

“The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.”

“I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.”

“As Caesar demands of us the stamp of his likeness, so does God also. And as we render money to the one, so we give our souls to the other, our souls enlightened and sealed with the light of His countenance.”

“You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.”

“The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.”

“God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you.”

“God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.”

“He wishes to give who advises us to ask.”

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ”

“Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.”

“God thirsts to be thirsted after.”

“You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness, You sparkled, You blazed, You drove away my blindness, You shed Your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.”

“Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.”