What Is God Quotes

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

When one encounters truth, one encounters the God whose truth it is.

Without God upholding the universe from moment to moment, nothing could continue to be.

If the God you believe in is not a sovereign God, then you really don't believe in God.

What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?

A holy God is both just and merciful. He is never unjust.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

Why would the disciples invent a God whose holiness was more terrifying than the forces of nature that provoked them to invent a god in the first place?

The resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.

We are not saved by feelings of sorrow over Jesus' death. We are saved when the Word of God 'pierces' our hearts (Hebrews 4:12), when we are convicted of our sins and trust Christ by faith.

God is predictably unpredictable.

God is neither manifest nor hidden; He is neither revealed nor unrevealed; there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

Man discovers his own wealth when God comes to ask gifts of him.

Scripture doesn't speak of people who found God. Scripture speaks of people who walked with God.

We are not spared death, but the power of death has been defeated. The grip of sin has been loosed. We are invited to share the victory, to follow the path of God back to life.

I don't know why Christians keep fighting over which is better-singleness or marriage-when it seems rather obvious, both from Scripture and from Church history, that both can glorify God.

The challenge of co-operation in today's age of quarrel can be achieved by adjusting every situation according to the higher principle of loving God.

Because there is no ego, God can flow through you; great creativity becomes possible.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Dare to love God without mediator or veil.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

By trusting Christ's redemptive work for us, we can enter into what we long for: the happiness found only in God.

Thank God for the theater.

I believe in Darwin and God together.

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.

The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?

I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

The original Greek word for enthusiasm meant "to be filled with God." When we are "filled with God" we tend to lead on purpose.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

God employs different strategies for different places or purposes

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma." Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah... yes. John Green." "Jason Grace." "Whatever," the god said.

If what I do pleases God, it is always the right thing to do, and I can stop worrying about everyone else's reactions. This dramatically simplifies life.