God Quotes
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To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.
Jerry Bridges
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If asked whether you love God, say nothing. This is because if you say, 'I do not love God,'you are an unbeliever. If, on the other hand, you say, 'I do love God,' your actions contradict you.
Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
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GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
Eugene H. Peterson
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This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
Martin Luther
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God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.
Mother Teresa
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Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.
Erwin McManus
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God gives us things to share, God doesn't give us things to hold.
Mother Teresa
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I just simply did what I believe God wanted me to do.
Bill Bright
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Thank God we don't serve God with our feelings, otherwise I don't know where I would be. - Pray for me.
Mother Teresa
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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.
Elisabeth Elliot
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When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.
Eugene Mirman
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God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.
Martin Luther
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Evolution in action: First, God said, 'Let there be light.' Then, he created two nude models. Now we have photographers.
Bill Jay
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Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
Erwin W. Lutzer
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William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.
Nat Hentoff
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First, I say that he draws near to those who make peace with him. For God is the One who brings about peace; and where else should peace dwell than in peace?
Thomas Aquinas
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
John Ruskin
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God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.
Jerry Bridges
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I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.
Bill Bright
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God and I have a great relationship but we both see other people.
Dolly Parton
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
Bernard of Clairvaux