Thomas Merton Quotes

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God.

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what.

No matter what I do on the baseball field, no matter how hard I try to be a good player, no matter how hard I try to be a good father or a good husband, I can never do enough. I can never be perfect in this world. But God's there to tell me that it's not what you do, it's whom you believe in and it's Him loving me.

We acknowledge that being the person God made you cannot separate you from God's love.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

I am spiritual. I believe God loves and is pulling for all of us.

Know today that God approves of you. He's pleased with you. He may not always be pleased with your choices or some of the things you do, but when God looks at you, He sees His amazing creation.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

It does not matter if you believe in God, because God believes in you.

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

Jesus.. says, 'Let go of your complaints, forgive those who loved you poorly, step over your feelings of being rejected, and have the courage to trust that you won't fall into an abyss of nothingness but into the safe embrace of a God whose love will heal all your wounds.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only a name, but we are real co-workers and carriers of His love. Today God loves the world through us. Especially in times like these when people are trying to make God "was," it is you and I, by our love, by the purity of our lives, by our compassion, who prove to the world that God "is."

Max: "You'll never be good enough to deserve her, you know." Ash: "God doesn't always give you what you deserve," Ash said quietly. "Sometimes he gives you what you can't live without.

God Never Compares You To Anyone Else. He Loves You As You Are.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.