God Quotes
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We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
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The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.
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With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth.
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God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it.
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But I couldn't help thinking, god, all these mailmen do is drop in letters and get laid. This is the job for me, oh yes yes yes.
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It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.
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God gives each of us our own grace, a special measure of blessings that line up exactly with his purposes for our lives.
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I don’t think we should give up on ritual. I don’t think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
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May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.
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The world could be as small as it was cruel. She wondered at God sometimes, his schemes, his plans, his plots, his sense of order. Maybe he was just like the Bible—beautiful and overwritten and redundant and badly in need of editing.
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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I don't have to teach anymore, I don't have to work anymore, God has been really good to me.
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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.
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You must strive with all possible care to please God in such a manner as neither to do nor behold anything, without first consulting Him, and in everything to seek Him alone and His glory.
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There never was a God. 'God is dead' is a halfway measure I won't go with.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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A little quiet reflection will remind me that yes to God always leads in the end to joy.
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Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer up your loneliness to God, as the little boy offered to Jesus his five loaves and two fishes. God can transform it for the good of others. Above all, do something for somebody else!
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Do you think god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?
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I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.
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Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.
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If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.
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The biblical assertion that women are created in God's image and Boaz's advocacy for Ruth and Naomi necessarily mean women, then and now, have inherent God-given rights. This surely means the church should be at the forefront of advocating for women's rights - not merely political and legal rights, but as in the case of Boaz moving beyond the letter of the law to exceed how any culture regards women.
