Andre Gide Quotes

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

God put us on this earth with the purpose of loving.

All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good

God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

The man who seeks to please God is the man who people are pleased with. The man who seeks to please others won't satisfy anyone.

The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.