Quotes About God

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man. . . . . A tree depicts divinest plan, But God himself lives in a man.

Our dream dashes itself against the great mystery like a wasp against a window pane. Less merciful than man, God never opens the window.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side.

What God asks of men, said [Billy] Graham, is faith. His invisibility is the truest test of that faith. To know who sees him, God makes himself unseen.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.

God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

God help the man who ever really loves you.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

Humility mainly becometh the converse of man with his Maker.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Time, the greatest enemy of man, is an addict who smokes the cigarette of life and uses God's soil as an ashtray.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.