God Quotes

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people.

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love.

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided.

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it.

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

God wants believers to take an interest in the well-being of the society in which they live.

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life.

God is always near His people, but their sinful behavior may cause His presence to be grievous.

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities.

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive.

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines.

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people.

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him.

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself.

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

The worship practices of the people of God are to be marked by devotion to Him and compassion to the needy.

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself.

Common sense religion emphasizes the human contributions that are supposed to move the deity. Valid worship always begins with recognition of what God has already done.

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness.

God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs.

In a world of constant change, God alone is the Rock upon which to build a life.

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth.

God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.

Love is one factor - but not the only on - that God uses to promote the permanence of the marriage bond.

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God.

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid.

God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them.

One of the greatest testimonials to God's love is His provision of His Word.

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Fear of the right type can be beneficial to the people of God (see Prov. 1:7), but the fear of man's hostile intentions seldom fits that category.

God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves.

Some believers tend to forget God's persistent faithfulness in the face of the spectacular and showy.

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.