What Is God Quotes

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

God will hold sinners with one hand over the pit of hell, while He torments them with the other.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

We become contemplatives when God discovers Himself in us.

My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.

The sweetest feeling in mortality is to realize that God, our Heavenly Father, knows each one of us and generously permits us to see and to share His divine power to save.

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

Humour is God's special gift to humanity. Handy, because it turns out to be necessary.

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives.

If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

God put me on this earth to be a tool.

I don't like hearing Beatles songs in commercials. It almost renders them useless. I think, 'Oh God, another one bites the dust.'

I needed to do my current job well, keep preparing, and wait on God's timing. I needed to trust His leadership rather than try to force an outcome I wanted.

God has a story to tell about you. A major part of it is you telling yours.

Only the gospel can truly save you. The gospel doesn't make bad people good; it makes dead people alive...the gospel is God's acceptance of us based on what Christ has done, not on what we can do.

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.

The gospel announces that God doesn't relate to us based on our feats for Jesus, but Jesus' feats for us.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous.

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

There is no hurry. There is only God, and all is well with the world.

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed.

Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.

I shall never be persuaded that God hath shut up all light of learning within the lantern of Aristotle's brain.

Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.

The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!