The Will Of God Quotes

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

Ptah? son of ptooey? What is he god of spitting? i asked

You assume that it has to be a male god who finds a human female attractive? How sexist is that?

Oh, god,” I said. “Sorry, sorry. Do I die now?” --Sadie to Zia

I woke to a bucket of ice water in my face. “Sadie! Get up,” Zia said. “God!” I yelled. “Was that necessary?” “No,” admitted Zia.

I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.

If I've got the powers of a god, then why am I so..." "Lame?" Sadie suggested. "Shut up," I said.

We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth's benefit.

One of my opponents [Romney] recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary. I agree with him.

Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

Christians can be positive even in a negative situation because we know God has a purpose for allowing that problem.

Faith is choosing and believing God's dream for your life. Nothing starts happening in your life until you start dreaming. God gave you the ability to dream, to create, to imagine.

The way God teaches us to live by faith is He takes away our feelings.

God's Word is not meant just to inform you, but to transform you.

Most people fail to realize that money is both a test and trust from God.

We have a choice of focusing on our problems or focusing on God, who holds the solution.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

Jesus measured greatness in terms of service not status. God determines your greatness by how many people you serve, not how many people serve you.

The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust, and life is a temporary assignment.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

We receive God's grace by humbly admitting that we need it.

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.

We receive from God, then we give to others.

Heartless praise is not praise at all. It is worthless and an insult to God.

God wanted us to choose to love him.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

God is far more interested in what you are than who you are.

There is nothing God won't do for the person totally absorbed with pleasing him.

God is at work in the world, and He wants you to join Him....You are the only Christian some people will ever know.

There are many pitfalls in the marathon of life. But regardless of what you go through, you can count on God's sustaining grace.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

God is not just the starting point of your life; he is the source of it.

If you always feel comfortable reading God's Word, you're either not reading ALL of it, or you aren't letting it sink in.

God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!

The instructor is always silent when the test is given... ...When God is silent in your life... You are being tested.

There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.

I believe what Irenaeus said - the glory of God is a human being fully alive.

All things work for bad for those living in opposition to God and insist on having their own way.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Many believe one can be a "good Christian" without joining (or even attending) a local church, but God would strongly disagree.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Now God has never shouted out to me. I've never heard God speak audibly. He doesn't have to.

We're going to worship in eternity. So what does God want me to do while we're here on earth? Practice. Practice worshipping.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you. But we're going to serve Him in heaven. So what does God want us to do? Practice.