#god

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#faith #god #prayer #sufferings #faith

We must be faithful to the present moment or we will frustrate the plan of God for our lives. ↗

— Solanus Casey

#inspirational #life #faith

God is patient with us to become the God's children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#children #god #him #patient #really

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#confined #conflict #god #great #love

Nature is the art of God. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#god #nature

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#among #diversity #god #his #image

I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in. ↗

— Christine Baranski

#always #decade #especially #extra #family

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird? ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#bird #deny #fish #gift #given