Quotes About God

Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

According to the Bible, sex isn't something sinful, but rather a wonderful gift from God to be thoroughly enjoyed within the boundaries of marriage.

The will leadeth us to God, or to the devil; it availeth not whether thou hast the name of a Christian; salvation doth not consist therein.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.

Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's eyes.

North Korea is a religion. We are told that Kim is a god and that he knows what you are thinking and how many hairs are on your head. It is the only country which talks about 'thought crime' - even thinking is a crime.

It is my conviction that marriage is such a good idea, only God could have thought of it.

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I am a Christian. I have deep faith... They thought they canceled Jesus, but you can't cancel God.

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?

Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Frontiers; what romance! Not all the nagging douanes and impatient queues of passengers could spoil it. Say frontier, frontier, frontier, ten times, and the word, unlike most words so treated, still retains a meaning. Love, hate, friendship, virtue, vice, God - these may become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals, but frontiers remain.

Which matters more to you, God or pretty illusions that you've been taught in God's name? (Or have you been clinging to the austere illusion of emptiness?) Consequences will flow from your choice.

Since I was in church anyway, I thanked God that Addie had spent the night with Kimberley, and was not around to witness the Incredible River Disaster and its aftermath. The morning was difficult enough with only the regular amount of speculation and staring. The antique pews were not very comfortable. Davis backsides had suffered the same wooden torture for generations, and I wondered if it was any easier with voluminous skirts and petticoats.

He said God loved me, even if I was Stalin's daughter."7 The remark suggests a depth of loneliness that is devastating.

Here is one with a gift for loving and a gift for hating, and when he hates, God help the man who earns his hatred.

Try to Achieve it, Not to deny it, The opportunities from God that you Received it....

She took me into the living room. She dropped onto a huge white sofa. She locked her hands around her knees. She drew them up to her chest. She rocked back and forth slowly. That was all by God. I sat down. I had to. Candi said do you like my white blouse? I shrugged. I said it's fine as far as it goes.

as if by behaving modestly and discreetly they could make the fire stay up on the mountain and die there, like an unwanted god.

The issue is the same today. What is our standard; by what standard shall we approach the problems of philosophy and the problems of everyday life? If we begin with anything other than the ontological Trinity, with the sovereignty of God as intellectually applied and systematically delineated in every aspect and avenue of human thought, we end with the destruction of Christian theology and the deterioration of Christian life.