Quotes About God

To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice is to worship God.

For God sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons.

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this damnation, to be secluded eternally, eternally, eternally from the sight of God?

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love

when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.

I need thy thunder, O my God; thy music will not serve me.

man is so little, in respect of the greatest man, as the greatest in respect of God; for here, in that, we have not so much as a measure to try it by; proportion is no measure for infinity.

And, O my God, who madest thyself a light in a bush, in the midst of these brambles and thorns of a sharp sickness, appear unto me so that I may see thee, and know thee to be my God, applying thyself to me, even in these sharp and thorny passages.

My God, my God, I find in thy book that fear is a stifling spirit, a spirit of suffocation; that Ishbosheth could not speak, nor reply in his own defence to Abner, because he was afraid.

Let me not therefore, O my God, be ashamed of these fears, but let me feel them to determine where his fear did, in a present submitting of all to thy will.

God's work does not begin when we show up; it is already well underway. A big part of our job is to slow down and observe where He is already at work and join Him there.12

Evil tries to hide, like God.

O gracious God! how far have weProfaned thy heavenly gift of poesy!

His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

In God 'tis glory: And when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

Perhaps the best-known verse in the Bible is John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

strategy 3: Treasure God's Love; Love Him in Return.

We must first have an intellectual understanding of the love of God, and then we must earnestly pray that the Holy Spirit will allow us to have a deep, fulfilling experience of his love.