God Quotes
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God... your book is beautiful!
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The earliest Christians held that God had exalted Jesus to a divine status at his resurrection. (This shows, among other things, that this is not simply a “skeptical” view or a “secular” view of early Christology; it is one held by believing scholars as well.)
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God shall be all in all.
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There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?
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Whatever our personal burden or cross to bear might be, we are here. We live! We Learn! The Grand Adventure is under way for us. Terrible as our trials might be, we are blessed and not abandoned by God.
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
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We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.
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Those who kept their sanity and humanity intact in the face of awful adversity. Heroes named and unnamed, some known only to God.
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Contentment is just the realization that God has already provided for me today all that I need for my present peace and happiness.
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Faith grows with exercise. You see God work miracles.
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The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.
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God is a refiner, not an arsonist.
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The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.
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It is essential that you realize that you are nothing in yourself. If you are rich and satisfied, you cannot receive anything from God. It is frightful to meet that spirit in a person. It totally hinders all spiritual growth and development.
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I wanted to own a junk yard as a child, you know. I used to smash cars and think, 'Oh, my God, there's been an accident.' My mother would take me to junk yards, and I look back on that and I think, 'Wow, that was really loving.'
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.
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God's got you in the palm of His hand. You won't leave one second before your time. If God wants you to be here, then you're going to be here.
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God does not give beforehand the grace with which to bear His blows; He does not heal before he smites. In your terror at the thought of parting with Horace, you left entirely out of account the sustaining power that would hold you up and bear you through those awful moments; you suffered in advance, and wholly in your own strength. But how many, how many persons I have heard say, ‘I am a marvel to myself! This blow, so long dreaded, has not slain me, as I ever believed it would; I stagger under it, but I live to wonder at the strength God gives me, and in which I bear it.
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Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.
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It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.
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I saw clearly the mothers of the old neighborhood. They were nervous, they were acquiescent. They were silent, with tight lips and stooping shoulders, or they yelled terrible insults at the children who harassed them. Extremely thin, with hollow eyes and cheeks, or with broad behinds, swollen ankles, heavy chests, they lugged shopping bags and small children who clung to their skirts and wanted to be picked up. And, good God, they were ten, at most twenty years older than me.
