The Will Of God Quotes
We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.
God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.
I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.
A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.
One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.
The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.
Our task shouldn't be punishing the villains in our lives, but enlarging the God who heals us from all wounds.
The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence.
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
If God gave Dad Alzheimer’s, He’s got to understand when Dad forgets what church he belongs to.
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.
Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.
With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.
The response to stress is not less time in God's Word, but more.
The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love.
God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.
One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.
The triune God exercises total government over all things, and He requires us as His image-bearers to exercise government in Christ in our own spheres in terms of His law.
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.
Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.
If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.
God has given you two ears--that should tell you something about the importance of listening.
When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.