God Quotes
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God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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In His infinite wisdom, God allows trials in order to develop perseverance in us and to cause us to fix our hopes on the glory that is yet to be revealed... Our faith and perseverance can grow only under the pain of trial.
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The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.
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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
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The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.
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God doesn't want you to go to church. He wants you to want to go to church.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
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God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.
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Everything if given to God can become your gateway to joy.
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What comes to our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
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Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for sacrifice. We cannot give our hearts to God and keep our bodies for ourselves.
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What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
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If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
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Stop asking God to bless what you're doing. Find out what God's doing. It's already blessed.
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I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.
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If there is no God, there is no hope.
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When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't unpacked, and the suitcase has been sitting there for three weeks.
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Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.
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If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.
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God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.
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If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
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Vinnie rocks her Garden and moans that God won't help her. I suppose he is too busy getting angry with the Wicked every day.
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So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that the will of God must appear to it as a multiplicity of commandments. In actual fact, it is one and indivisible; God wants nothing else except love because He Himself is love.
