Thomas a Kempis Quotes

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

God is bigger than people think.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

The more I try to unravel the mysteries of the world in which we live, the more I come to the conception of a single overruling power - God.

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'

After all, God is God because he remembers.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

There's absolutely nothing that the God I believe in cannot do.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

For me, the massiveness of what I don't know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.

The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

"God does not give us more than we can handle," I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.

What is impossible with man is child's play with God.