God Quotes
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
J. Gordon Melton
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The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God's Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
William Shakespeare
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
Edith Stein
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Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.
Jesus Christ
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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing - that the soul is eternal.
Meher Baba
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The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
R. C. Sproul
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I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.
Mario Teguh
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
Elisabeth Elliot
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God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't.
Doris Lessing
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God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
C. S. Lewis
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It's the most exciting thing to watch God work when I've asked him about something, to listen to him and watch him work. It's like this friendship, and it just grows and grows and grows and grows.
Charles R. Swindoll
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I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
Donald Cargill
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A process for discernment: God is my ultimate source of truth and wisdom, and dwells forever at the center of my being. Therefore, any thought, emotion, or action that takes me further from my center can be neither truthful, nor wise.
Bill Crawford
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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
Dwight L. Moody
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God sent us here to make mistakes.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.
Clementa C. Pinckney
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.
Jeff Duncan
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It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?
Charles Hodge
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You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God - the blood of Christ itself - does not undo the past.
Frederick William Robertson
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
Albrecht Durer
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I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him... it's Barack Obama!
Lulu Kennedy-Cairns
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79: A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
Alan Perlis