Goodness Of God Quotes
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We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
Brennan Manning -
What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
Elizabeth Goudge
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But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
John Calvin -
Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.
Martin Luther -
The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontentment is - a questioning of the goodness of God.
Jerry Bridges -
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
John Calvin -
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.
Brennan Manning -
Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Though I am able to do nothing else in this life, except only seek, my life seeming to others a vie manquee, yet it will not be so, because what I seek is the goodness of God that waters the dry places. And water overflows from one dry patch to another, and so you cannot be selfish in digging for it.
Elizabeth Goudge -
We were created to be expressions of the goodness and wholeness of God.
Erwin McManus