God Quotes

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God’s commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

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.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.