Chaim Potok Quotes

Religion itself is nothing else but Love to God and Man. He that lives in Love lives in God, says the Beloved Disciple: And to be sure a Man can live no where better.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?

All is vanity but to love God and serve Him.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.

Their throats were bare for God.

Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God.

There is only one way to bring peace to the heart, joy to the mind, and beauty to the life; it is to accept and do the will of God.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

When you use your life for God's glory, everything you do can become an act of worship

The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.

Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

There are so many lies out there about what the good life is whether that's making as much money as you can or just being the best you can be. I just want to challenge those lies and look at what God says the good life is in His Word. He says that the good life is about believing in God and embracing everything that He has for us.

It is only the life that is lost for Him that is found in Him.

Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.

I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven. If I am this moment, this day doing the things God requires of my hands, and precisely where my Father in Heaven wants me to be, I care no more about tomorrow than though it would never come.

In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.