Quotes About God

No one questions that the laws God gave to Moses to govern the nation of Israel are "holy, righteous and good" (Rom. 7:12). Those laws fulfill God's primary intention to convict a rebellious nation of its guilt and push them to believe the gospel promised to Abraham. Those same laws are not high enough to govern saints of God indwelt by the Holy Spirit.

The laws that God gave to hard-hearted sinners under the old covenant in order to convict those sinners of their need of grace are not of the same nature as the laws given to regenerate saints with new hearts under the new covenant. The laws, or rules, that govern a child of God living under grace will always make higher demands than the law or rules that govern hard

The laws that God gave to hard-hearted sinners under the old covenant in order to convict those sinners of their need of grace are not of the same nature as the laws given to regenerate saints with new hearts under the new covenant. The laws, or rules, that govern a child of God living under grace will always make higher demands than the law or rules that govern hard-hearted sinners living under a covenant of law.8

The nation of Israel was not the 'Body of Christ,' even though the Body of Christ is indeed the true 'Israel of God.

The sabbath was the sign of the covenant that God made with Israel and therefore it had to be part of the covenant document of which it was the sign.

Our Lord, the Son in whom God has spoken full and final truth (Heb. 1:1-3), has replaced Moses, the servant through whom God had spoken partial and preparatory truth.

Breaking the sabbath renounced the whole covenant relationship with God. To profane the Sabbath by performing even the slightest physical work was to deny all of the vows taken at Mount Sinai. It was an action equivalent to a man deliberately spitting in God's face and then, in defiant self-sufficiency and rebellion, breaking the most important law of the covenant by walking away and picking up some sticks or doing some other physical work.

The liberal's problem is his misunderstanding of the true nature of God. He begins with love instead of beginning with holiness. The death of the "Lord's goat" shows the necessity of a death to pay for sin. I used to say, "God owes no man anything," but I was wrong. God owes every sinner the wages of sin, namely death as the penalty for sin. God is honest and will pay the earned wages.

They are never called or treated as 'the unchanging moral law of God' either here in the Exodus passage that introduces them or anywhere else in Scripture. To call the Ten Commandments the 'moral law of God' is to use a purely theological term2 that is without any textual support from either this introductory passage or any other passage in Scripture.

May God us keep From simple vision and Newton's sleep. —William Blake[xxvii]

you are lovely - God has painted every feature of your soul ...

you've lost perspective? Well, get it back - God alone has the third person point of view in this life ...

you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...

this is indeed a clear proof that the love of God to his people is entirely free from all motives and conditions in them, being before they had done either good or evil; and therefore did not arise from any goodness in them, nor from their love to him nor from any good works done by them:

When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the "suspension of disbelief" and activity of the imagination that are available in novels and movies.

Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.

The smile of God is victory.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

I walk with bare, hushed feet the ground Ye tread with boldness shod; I dare not fix with mete and bound The love and power of God... I know not where his islands lift Their fronded palms in the air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond his love and care.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punchline.

Human schemes can never carry out the plans of God.

The evangelical commitment is to take the text at face value while resisting our culture's post-Enlightenment inclination toward skepticism. God must remain free to act in our world in improbable ways. The evangelical task is to assess accurately, with literary and theological sensitivity, what the face value of the text is, even if the result departs from traditional assessments.

We must also remember some of the key lessons of Scripture. In our weakness he is strong. He can use suffering to strengthen our character. He can use evil to accomplish good (precisely the nature of the discussion in the book of Habakkuk). God's sovereignty is demonstrated in that whatever personal or nonpersonal agents do, God takes it and turns it to his purpose.