God Quotes
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When there’s wickedness in our hearts, God will wait until that wickedness surfaces. He is capable of applying as much heat as it takes to surface the garbage in our hearts, no matter how much we might try to mask our sinfulness with piety.
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The world will die, but I shall not die.If God dies, then I will die;If he does not die, then why should I die?
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In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
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It is not so much the case that God has a mission for his church in the world, as that God has a church for his mission in the world. Mission was not made for the church; the church was made for mission - God’s mission.
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Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.
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The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.
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If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.
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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness.
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Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.
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Shame is the raincoat over the soul repelling the living water of Jesus that would otherwise establish us as the beloved of God.
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I am athirst for God, the living God.
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Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
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Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time.
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God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.
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You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.
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The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.
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If you will look into the Science of Spirit you will see that your life is meant to be sustained by the Science of God and not by the science of matter.
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We look high and low for God, but somehow He's not there. So we blame Him and tell ourselves that He must have forgotten us. Or else we decide that He left us long ago, if He was ever around." "How strange," the little fish said, "to miss what is everywhere." "Very strange," the old whale agreed. "Doesn't it remind you of fish who say they're thirsty?
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The value of a mind is measured by the nature of the objects it habitually contemplates. They whose thoughts are of trifles are trifling: they who dwell with what is eternally true, good and fair, are like unto God.
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The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
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The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado.
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While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible — through analysis and research — to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the idea of a specific God.
