Quotes About God's Character

Pray knowing that you pray to your heavenly Father. Pray in confidence that when you ask you will receive; when you seek you will find; when you knock it will be opened. Pray knowing that you pray to a God who doesn't give stones or serpents to his kids. Believe Jesus, and pray accordingly.

Scripture reveals God as an emotional being who feels—a Person.

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Every volcano is a powerful illustration of God's character. He is a Vesuvius of goodness, life, and energy.

If atheism is correct, his nauseating list from genocide to infanticide does not describe God's character but the people who claim to believe in God.

Are you conducting yourself properly so that when the world looks at you it sees God's character? Ask God to help you be a good witness at all times.

The presence of anger does not mean the absence of love—particularly in God. Love is God's character, not simply an emotion. What a small god we would have if divine character was dependent on our behavior. The Christian God is not like this. The Christian God is slow to anger and rich in mercy (see Exodus 34:6, echoed in Joel 2:13 and many other places in Scripture).

When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.

Real faith never disappoints because it is in God, grounded on His character, promises, covenant and oath.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

Jesus did not give the parables to teach us how to live. He gave them, I believe, to correct our notions about who God is and who God loves.

Holiness is not a series of do's and don'ts but conformity to the character of God and obedience to the will of God.

God is always better than he has to be. You can count on that.

God is worthy of my loving obedience because of who He is, not because of what he does.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. He's not a one-dimensional figure at all.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.

God is so clear in spelling out His attributes in scripture in order that others would know what He is really like.

Jesus sets the boundaries of God's will. If it doesn't look like Christ, then it's outside the will of God. Jesus iS the will of God for us.

Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured. God himself-his character of goodness (holiness and love)-is the standard.

If our perception of God's character is distorted due to our own experiences of life's disappointments and our own histories of trauma, then having an all-seeing and always-present God could be stifling and produce fear instead of love and trust.

Sometimes we fail to enjoy living in an Immanuel reality due to a distorted per 9 ception of God's character.

The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.

You cannot make God stop loving you, because his love is based on who he is, not what you do. It is based on his character, not your conduct.