Claudette Colvin Quotes

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

I was seeking a real love, a real deal, and I have been seeking it for a lot of years. And in that seeking, I found that God's love is real.

I knew that Jesus loved me, not because the Bible told me so but because my heart was informed by love. And later, for that same reason, I knew I was attracted to boys.

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

Where love is, there God is also.

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.

God to me is love.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit.

We teach that God's love for His children is infinite.

All are essentially equal in the eyes of God.

Love is a spiritual grace. We learn it from God.