Top 100 Quotes About The Face Of God
#1. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.
Ronald Reagan
#2. My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father
very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.
William P. Young
#3. It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
Charles Spurgeon
#4. My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only thing that she felt strongly about was that to say a ship was unsinkable was flying in the face of God. Those were her words.
Eva Hart
#5. So I will say this, "if any man marries just because of the emotions he feels towards a woman without first seeking the face of God to confirm if she is the suitable support needed for his life's assignment, such a man is acting in error.
Aderinsola Obasa
#6. The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
#8. Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
Hans Rookmaaker
#9. We are called to be contemplatives..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time ...
Mother Teresa
#10. Peace comes when we see our reflection in the face of God and let go of the desire to be someone else.
Jonathan Sacks
#11. The pale flowers of the dogwood outside this window are saints. The little yellow flowers that nobody notices on the edge of that road are saints looking up into the face of God.
Thomas Merton
#12. I never behold them [the heavens filled with stars] that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.- Abraham Lincoln
Louise Bachelder
#13. He who comes forth fresh from beholding the face of God will never fear the face of man.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. Watch the morning watch. Do not see the face of man until you have seen the face of God. Before you enter on the day with its temptations, look up into His face and hide His Word in your heart.
F.B. Meyer
#15. We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.
Dwight L. Moody
#16. If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the Ground of Being and on our side.
Richard Rohr
#17. We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. When 'important' individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do
to look into the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
#18. Self is the opaque veil that hides the Face of God from us. It can be removed only in spiritual experience, never by mere instruction.
A.W. Tozer
#19. Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.
Joseph Parker
#20. Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
Regina Brett
#21. I had sought love. I had talked of love, not knowing that it is one step beyond wisdom into the face of God. And this was the only salvation.
Tosca Lee
#22. I believe that many a time trouble and sorrow are permitted to come to us that we may see the face of God, and be shut up to trust in Him alone.
D.L. Moody
#23. When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
Walt Whitman
#24. Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.
Ann Voskamp
#25. Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immediately recognizes it and is drawn to the face of God.
Margaret Brownley
#26. To love your neighbors is to see the face of God.
- Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
#27. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
#28. I sing the song of my heartstrings, alone in the eternal muteness, in the face of God.
Yone Noguchi
#29. The face of God is nothing but the face within the mirror ...
Lionel Suggs
#30. Seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, all the time, and his hand in every happening; This is what it means to be contemplative in the heart of the world. Seeing and adoring the presence of Jesus, especially in the lowly appearance of bread, and in the distressing disguise of the poor.
Mother Teresa
#31. They say when you touch the face of God through those you love, the joy of it is so great, it is filled with equal pain.
Kathleen Bittner Roth
#32. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there. Shaking,
James S.A. Corey
#33. Until I face the emptiness in my soul
and know this spirit within me,
I have not yet begun to live,
nor touched the face of God.
David W. Earle
#34. Self-image, the concept we have of ourselves, must begin not by looking in the mirror but by looking into the face of God.
Sam Storms
#35. Why do Jesus and Mary only appear on Mexican food? Huh? Answer me that? Nobody ever sees the face of God in a California roll.
Ken O'Neill
#36. That it is precisely when we recognize our common humanity - when we recognize our own humanity in the face of the other - it is then that we also recognize the face of God.
Diana Butler Bass
#37. If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.
Robert Runcie
#38. Philip was fascinated by the all-absorbing question of the Beatific Vision: whether the souls of the blessed see the face of God immediately upon entering Heaven or whether they have to wait until the Day of Judgment.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#39. It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
John Calvin
#40. One sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile
Loren Eiseley
#42. The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth.
Abraham Lincoln
#43. The quest for the face of God has two central dimensions - the quest for His presence and the quest for His favor.
Bill Johnson
#44. I am high in the sky, and still I do not see the face of god.
Gherman Titov
#46. To love another person is to see the face of God.
Victor Hugo
#47. When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Michael Jackson
#48. I know why men lose sight of the face of God: because it is so close.
Parke Godwin
#50. When we meet a person truly in need, do we see the face of God?
Pope Francis
#51. Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.
John Eudes
#52. People thank God when God no longer sits on the throne. The angels descend down to deliver miracles because they are trying to maintain the face of God. In the end, you must place your hopes and prayers with the angels. It has become quite sad in Heaven without its puppet master.
Lionel Suggs
#53. If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.
Oswald Chambers
#54. In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward to the beginning of time, to the face of God, in whose image we were created.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#55. Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the face of God in the moment of suffering, in the face of a stranger, in the face of the vibrant religious other.
Krista Tippett
#56. Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe
#57. To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. We are all poor in the face of God's majesty. Not all of us realise it.
Radhe Maa
#59. In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Patti Smith
#60. Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong for the same reason: Everything changes except the face of god.
Elif Shafak
#61. He also keeps his silence when Bible passages become shredded to justify unwinding, and kids start to see the face of God in the fragments.
Neal Shusterman
#62. How I long to see
among dawn flowers,
the face of God.
Matsuo Basho
#63. Hell is not filled with people who are deeply sorry for their sins. It is filled with people who for all eternity still shake their puny fist in the face of God Almighty.
D. A. Carson
#64. Girls want flowers and candy, they go for the nice business men. They want a good solid fucking that can make them see the face of god, they come to men like me. I make no apologies about being who I am.
Jessica Gadziala
#65. It felt like they'd been plunged into a rainbow, or maybe
even seen the face of God.
Amy Andrews
#66. No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God.
Rumi
#67. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I.
Ayn Rand
#68. It was intentional and inhuman. It was like seeing the face of God and finding no compassion there.
James S.A. Corey
#69. Wherever you it is that you want to see the face of God, there you will see it. And if you don't want to see it, it doesn't matter, so long as you are performing good works.
Paulo Coelho
#70. To reconcile requires a commitment to see the face of God in the other, to feel the world from their perspective, and to place ourselves not in control of but alongside the human experience and condition.
John Paul Lederach
#71. He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. Once you have seen the face of God, you see the same face on everyone you meet.
Ming-Dao Deng
#74. We who live in this nervous age would be wise to meditate on our lives and our days long and often before the face of God and on the edge of eternity. For we are made for eternity as certainly as we are made for time, and as responsible moral beings we must deal with both.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#75. When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.
George MacDonald
#76. To improve quality of life, to evolve into a better version of ourselves, to pause in recognition of blessings with only our name on the tag, to dance in graitutde, to embrance with abandon, to give without receiving, to seek the face of God ... all this and more is why we exisit.
Toni Sorenson
#77. Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
Martin Buber
#78. Satsang is here to wash off the minds face and to reveal the face of God
Mooji
#79. A Christian servant is one who perpetually looks into the face of God and then goes forth to talk to others.
Oswald Chambers
#80. It is vey difficult to draw away from the face of God - it is like a warm fire, it is like dear sleep, it is like a great anthem, yet there is a stillness all about it, a stillness full of lights.
Lord Dunsany
#81. Charles L. Allen once said, "When you say a person or situation is hopeless, you are slamming a door in the face of God." Ouch. It is easy to focus on the doors being slammed (rejection, illness, fatigue, failures) and not see things from God's perspective. He never leaves us.
Celeste Palermo
#82. Faith and Hope are spiritual graces from God; therefore, to look at a situation and to say that 'it is hopeless'; or to look at one's self, and to say that 'I am hopeless', is closing the door in the face of God.
Kcat Yarza
#83. I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)
Tim Allen
#84. When you are discouraged, do not look down. Hold your head up high and you will see the face of God shining a light into your dark place.
Janet Autherine
#85. What I myself experience is indescribable gratitude in the face of God's perpetual and preemptive love, a love which is not contingent upon requital or even belief in His existence.
Franz Wright
#86. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Dizzy Gillespie
#87. Oh, my faith has flagged at times. It's easy to fall back into the same routines and paint over the sublime with coat after coat of indifference ... I promise you something: when you have touched the face of God, you can never unlearn what you have learned. You can never unsee what you have seen.
Garth Stein
#88. Was at moments such as these that Joseph recognized the face of God in human form. It glimmered in their kindness to him, it glowed in their keenness, it hinted in their caring, indeed it caressed in their gaze.'
R.J. Palacio
#90. If you start feeling wonderful and powerful and like you've seen the face of God, you're having a euphoric attack.
James S.A. Corey
#91. Live and Let live"
" To love someone is to see the face of God
Victor Hugo
#92. When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love. All that was true love in them was, even on earth, far more His than ours, and ours only because His.
C.S. Lewis
#93. When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.
R.C. Sproul
#94. To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter's face is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him.
David Whyte
#95. Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#96. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#97. Late season fruits.
The blood orange has its admirer, who suck it smugly. Cooks stalk it; they'd like to put it in some tartare sauce. However, some, like me, turn their noses up. In silence they mould bits of bread into balls, delighting in their work, then chuck them in God's face.
Claude Cahun
#98. Each of us has to face the matter - either the Church is true, or it is a fraud. There is no middle ground. It is the Church and kingdom of God, or it is nothing.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#99. Loneliness made or ruined a man. It frightened him so that he must either sing and build in the face of the dark, like a bird or a beaver, or hide from it like a beast in his den. There were perhaps always only the two ways to go, God or the jungle.
Elizabeth Goudge
#100. Only in a state of solitude, when you willingly stay face to face with God, can He help you to open yourself, and show the impurities preventing you from moving forward and help you to identify your unique gift, life mission and destination
Sunday Adelaja
