What Is God Quotes

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.

I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.

I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.

I listen and talk to God daily.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

God gives quietness at last.

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

(God) wants America to succeed. And he wants America to lead.

Everybody has a right to their God-given purpose.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

The year goes wrong, and tares grow strong, Hope starves without a crumb; But God's time is our harvest time, And that is sure to come.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world!

If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom."

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

God is so immense that if he were 'too visible,' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.

the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

We cannot enjoy peace in this world unless we are ready to yield to the will of God in respect of death. Our times are in His hand, at His sovereign disposal. We must accept that as best.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.