Quotes About God

I don't know how people pray who don't believe in the sovereignty of God to do the impossible. Because all the things I want to happen are impossible. If they're possible I'll do them.

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work. Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm.

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

God is fucking stealing souls again!

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

I think that when Jesus was put before you, you did not see a God or a prophet, you did not see a lunatic or an innocent, you didn't even see a human being. I think, Mister Pilate, that what you saw before you that morning was just one more Jew, and you didn't hesitate. Why would you?

EL-FAYOUMY: You're very handsome, Caiaphas. CAIAPHUS THE ELDER: If I am, it's 'cuz God made me, not 'cuz you said so. Good day.

Being truthful to a degree worthy of God means so much more than simply not lying. It means we take the time to discern what the truth is.

Even though God may be unknown to us, he is near and willing to reveal himself. God has promised that "if you look for me in wholeheartedly, you will find me" (Jeremiah 29:13). Turning over our will involves accepting God as he is instead of insisting on creating him in our own image. When we seek God with an open heart and mind, we will find him.

highest purpose as humans and followers of Jesus—is to be a conduit of God's love.

Like Shelley, in order to change and engage the process of trust building, I, too, needed to come to terms with the truth that God was ultimately the change agent and healer. He is the true trust builder. He is the master architect and artist shaping any sculpture. If both Shelley and I lean on him for our journey of rebuilding our relationship, then neither of us must lean against each other.

For we love as God loves us; filled with the love of the Lord, we love others in the only way love ever acts.

19But Joseph replied, "Don't be afraid of me. Am I God, that I can punish you? 20You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good.

17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!

37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'a 38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'a 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

God's children can feel driven to try to seem as if they never misbehave, taking very seriously the idea that they're to be as godlike as they can possibly will themselves to be.

We may have already chosen to follow God, letting him define the overall direction of our life. Even so, many of us still try to keep parts of our heart hidden from God. We have devoted these parts of ourself to gratifying our addiction, to doing things that are contrary to the will of God. This sets us up for living a double life, which can fill us with guilt, shame, and instability.

The only way to love and give is to do both out of the fullness of God.

And admitting that you can't fix yourself—that only God can—is the first step to staying fixed.

Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit.

When we have an out-of-control appetite for food, it signals that we have put that appetite above its rightful place as a necessary and God-given function.

There are as many great reasons to regularly pray to God as there are to live and breathe and stay alive.