Basil Hume Quotes

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

It is a mistake to assume that God is interested only, or even chiefly, in religion.

If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.

God is good.

We just can't love without God. God wants for us want we want for ourselves. These basic things are not that hard to grasp. We just have to have faith, and faith is a gift. We just need to accept it.

God can only be comprehended as Love.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance.

Love properly understood is God—the font of all creation and the ultimate goal of all desires; God properly understood is love.

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.

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.

If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for his creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it - and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.