What Is God Quotes

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.

We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.

In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

The old paradigm taught that if you had the right teaching, you will experience God. The new paradigm says that if you experience God, you will have the right teaching.

I'm always telling people who say two men can't make a baby: 'Anything is possible for God. I'm going to keep inseminating my husband and keep my fingers crossed.'

When God closes a door, he opens a window. Sounds to me like he's on the toilet.

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

Man didn't put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I'm in this position because of God. And so, if man didn't put me in this place, I really don't see no man that can take me out of here.

I believe God weeps over - over death. Jesus wept at the grave the Lazarus. In the Bible, Jesus weeps at death.

I choose to believe that the same God who intervened to bring his Son back to life intervened on this day in history to help his people.

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.

God, show me how to pray in a way that will make a difference in this child’s life.

My every action is to liberate God from his sorrow.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

Nothing is small if God accepts it.

Do you suppose that God has any need of our works? What God needs is the resoluteness of our will.

I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

How terrible the need for God.

The good God would not inspire unattainable desires.

Time is but a shadow, a dream; already God sees us in glory and takes joy in our eternal beatitude. How this thought helps my soul! I understand then why He lets us suffer.

He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.

Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

A humble knowledge of ourselves is a surer way to God than is the search for depth of learning.