Quotes About God

The Bible says that it is through the fear of the Lord that men depart from sin (Proverbs 16:6). If they don't fear God, they will be complacent about their eternal salvation (Matthew 10:28).

justice. Can you imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were completely removed? Imagine how our culture would be if a man could rape and murder with no concern about being punished in the slightest. A scenario like that would reveal to everyone the true heart of humanity.

What motivates us more: the fear of man or the fear of God? If we fear man more than we fear God, then we don't see God in truth. We see the Lord as less than a man—and this is proven by whose will we obey. A. W. Tozer said, "An idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

True liberty comes with the abandonment of self in our worshiping God, freeing us to worship in His way, not ours.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Human marriage has always been intended by God to serve as a prophetic whisper of the eternal marriage. Every real marriage in the world today manages that statement to some degree, however weakly, because that is what marriage is. Very few realities in our lives bear such a sacred meaning and deserve such special consideration.

His [God] ways are how we swim with the current of reality, how we cut with the grain, how we get home by the right road. — (Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel)

While I would not claim that Muir's "God" (or his "Mother Nature") is neatly synonymous with China's "Tao," it seems clear that what Muir is getting at when he uses the various terms examined above is well within the variety of concepts that have been advanced to describe "the Tao

Churches don't make the gospel true. It is true even when the household of God behaves badly. But people can see that it is true, and doubters are converted when "the sweetness of the Lord" is upon us (Ps. 90:17, JB).

The confinement she feels is spreading, becoming intolerable, because in a hostile mind limitations grow to a maddening degree. Moreover, God had strongly warned, "You shall surely die." But the woman now softens it to ". . . lest you die." Now that her view of the consequences is less alarming, Satan springs on that very point:

Covenant community, the hand of God will write

When a husband does not appreciate how sweetly his wife keeps looking for ways to make things work, God does see, and he does appreciate her. She is always very precious to him.

Isn't it interesting how in Christmas cards and on public displays we often see the words, "Peace on earth, good will toward men"? But how seldom do we see the prior words, "Glory to God in the highest"! But there is no peace, there is no good will, unless there is glory to God in the highest first. We forget to put God's glory first. Fortunately, he does not. God will be glorified

But if we humbly bend to the sorrows and buffetings of this life, trusting God, we will be surprised to discover beauty where God has hidden it—not in our fantasies but in his realities. God's

We didn't ruin God's plan; we are his plan, his eternal plan to love the undeserving, for the display of his glory alone.

God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.

I curse you, Philippe le Bel, and your buffoon pope, and I call on God Almighty to have you both join me before His seat within the year, to suffer His judgment, and burn forever in the furnaces of hell…

We'll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.

Yelling "God is on our side" is "very effective at rallying the masses. And at winning elections....

We feel (God's) presence every time we make a choice. It's something that's inside us.

There are two billion Christians out there, Sean, and a lot of them think of the Bible as God's words. His actual words. They think the twenty-seven texts that make up the New Testament were handed down to us by God himself, to help us lead better lives and achieve eternal salvation. They don't realize that nothing could be farther from the truth and that what we call the Bible was actually

We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.

has helped bring it home to me how fragile life is - and how necessary it is to concentrate on the essentials. No matter what happens to you, if you can draw strength from God and the people you love, nothing can ever defeat you.