God Quotes

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

We will not let you choose between being a lover of God and his sovereignty and being a lover of lost people.

God created us with sexual passion so that there would be language to describe what it means to cleave to him in love and what it means to turn away from him to others.

A God-centered theology has to be a missionary theology

God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

The further you go in the revealed thoughts of God, the clearer you see that God's aim in creating the world was to display the value of his own glory.

Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.

God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

God loves to show mercy . . . His anger must be released by a stiff safety lock, but His mercy has a hair trigger.

Zeal for the glory of God motivates world missions

Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

In demanding our praise God is demanding the completion of our pleasure (in him).

For the mind of faith, a promised act of God is as good as done.

There is no such thing as a peace of soul approach to religion. It makes of God a gigantic Bayer Aspirin; take God three times a day and you won't feel any pain.

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother.

If you want to work for the kingdom of God, and to bring it, and enter into it, there is just one condition to be first accepted. You must enter into it as children, or not at all.

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

God is a presence that I can never define but I could never deny.

What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

God continues to speak through what He has spoken.

The meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God?

If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.

God is in the tiger as well as in the lamb.

Sometimes I wonder whose side God's on.

You cannot put it all in God's hands. God is busy.

He who truly seeks God has found Him.

Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.

A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.

I feel like [God]'s hazing us.

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

I remain God's humble servant.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.