John Calvin Quotes

God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

I always believed in God, I would go to mass most of the time, but I had no idea of the calling to holiness.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

When God took it, he accepted it; when he brought it back, he accepted it. That's what's happening with me.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

I think there's a passion for God like never before.