What Is God Quotes

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

That is God's call to us - simply to be people who are content to live close to him and to renew the kind of life in which the closeness is felt and experienced.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

[The Lord] has indicated that the greatest work we parents can do is performed in our homes, and our homes can be heaven, particularly when our marriages are sealed in the house of God.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

Every person in every generation has a choice: to obey God or to do his own thing.

I believe in my God-given athletic ability and the coaches that have been blessed around me. I believe I can do the job as a quarterback in the NFL.

If anything becomes more fundamental than God to your happiness, meaning of life, and identity then it is an idol.

The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Cities have more “image of God” per square inch than anywhere else, and so we must not idealize the country as somehow a more spiritual place than the city.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

You are a God Act like one!

Like an engineer understands a car he or she designed, no one understands your limitations and possibilities better than the God who created you.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

I believe in a supreme being, yeah. But He's an all-loving God.

I'm no more a lawbreaker than they are , and if they were lawbreakers for keeping God's commandments, they're my example.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

I think there are times when I believe God welcomes the circus into our lives to give us an opportunity to show that there’s another way to live and respond to things.

As a result, socialism and communism, in particular, use government to suppress religion to such a degree as to leave the one true God out entirely.

Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.

Whatever we may mean by 'Christian growth,' it is ultimately this: less faith in me, more faith in God.

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

I thank God for Closed Doors

I'm not afraid to have a character say, 'I am a Christian,' or, 'I believe in God,' because I think they represent real people on this Earth.

For as low as you go, ask God to take you that high.

Friends are God's way of taking care of us.

God lead us past the setting of the sun To wizard islands, of august surprise; God make our blunders wise.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

I think all religions can agree on certain definitions of God and concepts of God, like God being the god of love, the great 'I am' energy.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

May God be pleased to make it known to you, and fill you increasingly with His Spirit, so that through you it may be poured into the souls you guide, and your own soul may be more greatly sanctified!

I have never come away from you without reflecting that the Spirit of God and His holy workings reside in you.

If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.

If there is any danger in the present weather, in the name of God, Monsieur, wait until spring

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

We have to thank God for this retirement.

For too long already we have talked about man; let us finally talk about God again.

God created women only to tame men.

Don't blame God for your lack of success.

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.