What Is God Quotes

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.

I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam.

Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Wisdom is the capacity to see things from God's viewpoint.

Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

We know that all must, in the end, stand by the side of the Divine. There is no escape from it, because that is His will.

God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Until we care more about what God thinks than what other people think we are never truly free

If you are marked by God, you don't need to be marketed by man.

The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.

I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

I make intelligence cool. I make spirituality cool. If we can make one's devotion to God cool, then I think I did a great thing. I can rest in peace.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

We should remember that people can go to Heaven without knowing much of the Word of God, but they cannot go to Heaven without knowing Jesus Christ as Savior.

It will all work out in the end. You must keep faith in yourself, and leave the rest to God.

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.

It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

Are we alone in an uncaring universe, or is God some kind of wiseguy?

Prosperity is a by-product of an effective management of whatever God provides.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

Since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. He became like us, so we could become like Him.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God.

God is at his greatest when I am at my least.

God is only where you let Him in.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

Look at all the stars. You look up and you think, 'God made all this and He remembered to make a little speck like me.' It's kind of flattering, really.

To reflect on the essence of the Creator ... is forbidden to the human intellect because of the severance of all relation between the two existences.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Clear the mind of all worldly things. If you can't control your mind, how will you realize God?

Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.