Archive for category: God

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Prof. Stephen Hawking – American physicist (1942-2018), from “A Brief History of Time” (1988)

Menneskets Storhed afhænger ene og alene af Guds-Forholdets Energie i ham.

The greatness of a man depends simply and solely on the energy of the God-relation in him.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard – Danish Protestant theologian an philosopher (1813-1855), known as one of the most important academics in Denmark, from “The Concept of Anxiety” (“Begrebet Angest”, published under the pseudonym Vigilius Haufniensis, “the Watchman of Copenhagen”, 1844)

As long as we entertain only good options, we will never experience God’s best.

Dr. Ed Silvoso – Argentinian author, documentarian and evangelist (b. 1945), from “That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism” (1994)

Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have.

C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963), from “Mere Christianity” (1952)

Whenever two people forgive each other, it is Christmas.
Whenever you show understanding for your children, it is Christmas.
Whenever you help a person, it is Christmas.
Whenever someone decides to live honestly, it is Christmas.
Whenever a child is born, it is Christmas.
Whenever you try to give a new meaning to your life, it is Christmas.
Whenever when you look at each other, with the eyes of the heart, with a smile on your lips, it is Christmas.

Because love is born.
Because peace is born.
Because justice is born.
Because hope is born.
Because joy is born.
Because Christ, the Lord, is born.

from Brazil – Quotations book 2019

Cada vez que duas pessoas se perdoam, é Natal.
Cada vez que você mostra compreensão com as suas crianças, é Natal.
Cada vez que você ajuda uma pessoa, é Natal.
Cada vez que alguém decide viver honestamente, é Natal.
Cada vez que nasce uma criança, é Natal.
Cada vez que você procura dar um sentido novo à sua vida, é Natal.
Cada vez que você olhar alguém com os olhos do coração, com um sorriso nos lábios, é Natal.

Porque nasce o Amor.
Porque nasce a Paz.
Porque nasce a Justiça.
Porque nasce a Esperança.
Porque nasce a Alegria.
Porque nasce Cristo, Nosso Senhor.

do Brasil – Livro de cotações 2019

No one can stop you.

The bible, Job 42:2 (NLT) – Quotations book 2019

Nous ne connaissons Dieu que par J.-C. Sans ce médiateur est ôtée toute communication avec Dieu.

Blaise Pascal – Mathématicien et philosophe français (1623-1662), a “Pensée Non. 221”

God’s native language is silence, the church fathers say. Silence is God’s voice, and that voice says, “I love you, I love you, I love you.” For silence is the space that God has made within his Being for us to be. This is love: to let the other be, to open a space within self for other. Silence is that space within God’s being where we are able to be. So, when we hear silence, we are listening to God tell us that he loves us enough to make room within himself for us.

Prof. Joseph McQueen – American linguist

Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.

Billy Graham – born William Franklin Graham jr., American evangelist (1918-2018), from “Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador” (1999), Quotations book 2018

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.

Huius mundi ratio ad successum nos dominatumque propellit; Dei tamen mens ad humilitatem, ministerium atque amorem incitat.

Pope Francis – born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, since 2013 Holy Father (b. 1936), in a message on Twitter (2nd June 2013), Quotations book 2018

The modern clergy believe they can bring man closer to Christ by insisting on Christ’s humanity.
Thus forgetting that we do not trust in Christ because He is man, but because He is God.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila – Colombian philosopher (1913-1994), from “Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección”, p. 472 (1977), Quotations book 2017

El clero moderno cree poder acercar mejor el hombre a Cristo, insistiendo sobre la humanidad de Jesús.
Olvidando así que no confiamos en Cristo porque es hombre, sino porque es Dios.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila – filósofo columbiano (1913-1994), de “Escolios a un texto implícito” (1977), Libro de citas 2017

Fader i Himlene! Hvad er dog et Menneske uden Dig!
Hvor er Alt hvad han veed, var det end det Mangfoldiges Mængde, kun et afbrudt Stykke, hvis han ikke kjender Dig;
er al hans Stræben, var den end omfattende en Verden, kun et halvgjort Arbeide, hvis han ikke kjender Dig, Du den Ene, som er Eet og som er Alt!
Saa give Du i Forstanden Viisdom til at fatte det Ene, i Hjertet Oprigtighed til at annamme Forstaaelsen, i Villien Reenhed ved kun at ville Eet;
saa give Du i gode Dage Vedholdenhed til at ville Eet, i Adspredelser Samling til at ville Eet, i Lidelser Taalmod til at ville Eet.
O, Du som giver baade at begynde og at fuldkomme, Du give aarle, naar Dagen gryer, den Unge Beslutningen at ville Eet;
naar Dagen helder give Du Oldingen en fornyet Ihukommelse af sin første Beslutning, at det Sidste maatte være som det Første, det Første som det Sidste, være Dens Liv, der kun har villet Eet.

Father in heaven, what is man without you!
What is all that he knows, vast accumulation though it be, but a chipped fragment if he does not know you!
What is all his striving, could it even encompass a world, but a half-finished work if he does not know you: you the One, who is one thing and who is all!
So may you give to the intellect, wisdom to comprehend that one thing; to the heart, sincerity to receive this understanding; to the will, purity that wills only one thing.
In prosperity may you grant perseverance to will one thing; amid distractions, collectedness to will one thing; in suffering, patience to will one thing.
O you who give both the beginning and the completion, may you early, at the dawn of day, give to the young person the resolution to will one thing.
As the day wanes, may you give to the old person a renewed remembrance of their first resolution, that the first may be like the last, the last like the first, in possession of a life that has willed only one thing.

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard – Danish Protestant theologian an philosopher (1813-1855), known as one of the most important academics in Denmark, from “Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing”, in “Edifying Discourses in Diverse Spirits” (1847), Quotations book 2017

If you renounce the powerful motor of profit-striving you have to put another power in its place: service in the religious sense. That is solid ground and brings blessings which we feel thankfully every day. Living and believing in the midst of all the indifference – that is the great experience.

Celui qui renonce au puissant moteur du gain doit le replacer par une autre puissance: servir dans le sens de la foi. C’est une base solide qui apporte le bonheur que nous ressentons, chaque jour, avec reconnaissance. Vivre et croire, entouré de tant d’indifférence, est une expérience merveilleuse.

Gottlieb Duttweiler – Swiss entrepreneur, founder of Migros (1888-1962), in “Wir Brückenbauer” (May 16th, 1958), Quotations book 2017

Helgon äro de människor, som göra det lättare för andra att tro på Gud.

A saint is one who makes it easier for others to believe in God.

Nathan Söderblom – Swedish Lutheran theologian, 1914-31 Archbishop of Uppsala, Nobel Peace Prize 1930 (1866-1931), in “Den levande Guden: grundformer av personlig religion” (“The Living God”, 1932), Quotations book 2016

You say: “I can’t figure things out.”
God says: “I will make straight your paths.”

You say: “I can’t forgive myself.”
God says: “I forgive you.”

You say: “I’m too tired.”
God says: “I will give you rest.”

You say: “Nobody really loves me.”
God says: “I love you.”

You say: “I can’t do it.”
God says: “You can do all things.”

You say: “It’s not worth it.”
God says: “It will be worth it.”

You say: “I feel all alone.”
God says: “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

You say: “It’s impossible.”
God says: “All things are possible.”

Motivational saying – Quotations book 2015

But for me it is good to be near God.

The Bible, Psalm 73:28 (NRSV) – Quotations book 2014

The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) – he belonged to the Confessing Church – decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil courage! He has established a tradition that still exists today. Meanwhile, the annual solution is set by the Ecumenical Association for Bible Reading (Ökumenische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bibellesen) three years in advance.

Être à l’image de Dieu, ne signifie pas être l’icône de Dieu, mais se trouver dans sa trace.

Emmanuel Lévinas – philosophe et ecrivain français (1906-1995), de “La Trace de l’Autre” (1963), Brochure de citation 2016

And he told them this parable: The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I’ll say to myself, You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.’ But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not rich towards God.

The Bible, Lucas 12, 16-21 (NIV) – Quotations book 2013

Jesus Christ said: My power is made perfekt in weakness.

The Bible, 2. Corinthians 12:9 (NIV) – Quotations book 2012

The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) – he belonged to the Confessing Church – decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil courage! He has established a tradition that still exists today. Meanwhile, the annual solution is set by the Ecumenical Association for Bible Reading (Ökumenische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bibellesen) three years in advance.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

attributed to Abraham Lincoln – American politician, 1861-65 16th president (1809-1865), Quotations book 2011

The fear of God is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.

The Bible, Proverbs 14:27 (NIV) – Quotations book 2010

I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.”

And he replied, “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light safer than a known way.”

Minnie Louise Haskins – British sociologist at the London School of Economics (1875-1957)

Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.

The Bible, 1. Peter 4,1 (NIV)

I want to know His (God’s) thoughts, the rest are details.

Albert Einstein – German physicist, Nobel prize in physics 1921 (1879-1955), from the interview “A Talk with Einstein” with Esther Salaman, 1955

God loves us not because we are lovable, but because He ist love.

C. S. Lewis – Britisch writer (1898-1963), from Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis: Volume III, Letter to Mary Van Deusen, May 25, 1951

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world..

C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963), from “The Problem of Pain” (1940)

It is an anomaly of modern life that many find giving to be a burden. Such persons have omitted a preliminary giving. If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

attributed to John S. Bonnell – American pastor and author (1893-1992), Quotations book 2009

Jesus comes into our night so that we can come into his light.

Peter Hahne – German television host and 1992-2009 member of the German Evangelical Church Council (b. 1952), Quotations book 2012

What I possess, God owns.

Howard Dayton -co-founded Crown Financial Ministries (b. 1943), Quotations book 2008

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all. But whatever I have placed in God’s hands, that I still possess.

wird Martin Luther zugeschrieben – German reformer (1483-1546), Quotations book 2008

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator.

If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist.

If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist.

If our greatest need had been pleasure, God would have sent us an entertainer.

But our greatest need was forgiveness, so God sent us a Savior.

seen Pentecost 1994 in New Orleans – Quotations book 2002 + 2006

Behold! I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?

The Bible, Jesaja 43:19a (ESV) – Quotations book 2007

The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) – he belonged to the Confessing Church – decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil courage! He has established a tradition that still exists today. Meanwhile, the annual solution is set by the Ecumenical Association for Bible Reading (Ökumenische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bibellesen) three years in advance.

tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you!

The Bible, Matthew 17:20-21 (N.N.) – Quotations book 2007

Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.

The Bible, Proverbs 16:3 (NIV) – Quotations book 2007

1. I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
2. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbour’s.

These commandments can be found in the Bible at Moses 2:20 and Moses 5:5 – Quotations books 2002 to 2019

Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

The Bible, Psalm 37:5 (KJV) – Quotations book 2006

I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

The Bible, Josua 1:5 (KJV) – Quotations book 2006

The Protestant pastor and song writer Otto Riethmüller (1889-1939) – he belonged to the Confessing Church – decided in 1930 under the impression of the Nacional Socialism’s propaganda, to give henceforth every calendar year a headline with a Bible verse. An act of civil courage! He has established a tradition that still exists today. Meanwhile, the annual solution is set by the Ecumenical Association for Bible Reading (Ökumenische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Bibellesen) three years in advance.