Saint Augustine Quotes

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

Beware of the inclination to dictate to God what consequences you would allow as a condition of your obedience to Him.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you would the Apostles; reverence the deacons as you would God's commandment.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Summon the people to God; those who respond to your call, accept it from them, but those who refuse must pay the poll tax out of humiliation and lowliness. If they refuse this, it is the sword without leniency. Fear God with regard to what you have been entrusted

It is not befitting for a believing man or woman, when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Messenger, to have any option about their decision

This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.

To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.

in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

In conclusion, the submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give,' brothers and sisters, are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us. However, when you and I finally submit ourselves, by letting our individual wills be swallowed up in God's will, then we are really giving something to Him! It is the only possession which is truly ours to give!

All power is His and within His command.

It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.

God will give you anything as long as you understand that he is the primary and not the secondary.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.

Actually, as a Muslim, we believe sovereignty and supremacy belongs to God. And therefore, we believe in submitting to the commands of God.

Anyway, you know good and well it would be beyond the will of God, and the grace of the King