Quotes About Turning Back To God

#1. To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

Rob Bell

#2. America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

Ronald Reagan

#3. The integration of Europe was very much led by a Germany that was always willing to pay a little bit extra to reach a compromise that everybody accepted, because Germany was so eager to get European support for reunification. That was called the "farsighted vision," which created the European Union.

George Soros

#4. Obedience does not consist in paying God back and thus turning grace into a trade. Obedience comes from trusting in God for more grace - future grace - and thus magnifying the infinite resources of God's love and power.

John Piper

#5. It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias.

Criss Jami

#6. Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Thomas Keating

#7. Ignoring our emotions is turning our back on reality. Listening to our emotions ushers us into reality. And reality is where we meet God. . . . Emotions are the language of the soul. They are the cry that gives the heart a voice. . .

Peter Scazzero

#8. I will do what I can

Jude Morgan

#9. I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

Kerry Washington

#10. All our hopes of turning the cursed ground into the blessed ground, and thus regaining it, are doomed by the fact that it is God himself who cursed the ground, and it is He alone who is able to take back what he said and bless the earth again.

Deitrich Bonhoeffer

#11. When confronted with challenge,I discover my inner strength.

Celeste Cooper

#12. Oh my God, I . . . I almost got run over by a moped," I said, turning my bewildered stare back on Ren. "That would've been so embarrassing to be taken out by one of them

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Gloria Steinem

#14. If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

Paramahansa Yogananda