The Will Of God Quotes
If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.
There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.
Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.
In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.
But we must be aware that art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity
If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.
It's helpful to remember that God doesn't belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around.
To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.
Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.
God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.
Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.
Your solution lies not in finding favor before men but before God. Learn to seek Him for your problems and His favor will meet you.
Easter is God throwing everything at death so that I can give everything to life.
Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.
Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?
Easter says that every ending ever experienced by man is exquisitely crafted to find its own ending at the feet of a fresh beginning.
Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.
Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.
If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.
If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on what Christianity is all about!
Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.
I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.
The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.
We have to allow God to do a work in us before He can do a work through us.
The worst defeat of all is to surrender without having been defeated. And it is Christmas that obliterates both.
Growing up I sometimes imagined that for Christ's return perhaps He would appear as 'Black Jesus' to white people and 'White Jesus' to black people just to screw with the racists.
It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular
The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.
God has given me both the right and privilege to outrun Him if I so choose. Yet, if I do so, I will have lost the race.
I tried to close my ears to the strange worshipful chanting and fix my mind on God, but the Egyptians’ idolatry weighed down my weary shoulders and brought tears to my closed eyes.
Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.
The length of the fall is dictated by how far we had climbed. The outcome of the fall is dictated by whether we’re holding on to that which we’re climbing, or we’re letting God hold onto us.
When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.
The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.
