Quotes About God

Destructive behavior—or simply behavior that constantly annoys your spouse to the point of desperation—is not right, and there will always be a serious consequence for it in your marriage and personal life. But every attempt you make to rid yourself of that behavior and do what's right will bring reward. Today, ask God to help break any bad habits that you or your spouse may have.

Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

Christianity stands or falls on this tenet of the faith. If Christ is risen, he is all he said he was—the Messiah, the Son of God, the eternal king. If he isn't risen, he's dead—and irrelevant. Either way, we don't need more signs. We need to choose to believe what the evidence clearly shows.

Paul never thought of himself as having chosen God—it was the other way: God had chosen him. This

Grace is God's stance of giving, loving, blessing. The Greek word for grace (claris) means favor and gift and blessing. In

Thomas Merton asked, "What am I?" and answered, "I am myself a word spoken by God." How we perceive ourselves, who we think ourselves to be, determines the direction of our lives and shapes our relationships. To

Beyond earth, however, is heaven. Beyond time is eternity. Beyond change is the changeless promise of God. Thus

No Church has done more to fill the world with gloom than the Presbyterian. Its creed is frightful, hideous, and hellish. The Presbyterian God is the monster of monsters. He is an eternal executioner, jailer and turnkey. He will enjoy forever the shrieks of the lost — the wails of the damned. Hell is the festival of the Presbyterian God.

Hope is not defined by the absence of hardship. Rather, hope is found in God's grace in the midst of hardship. Hope is found in his promise to give us a future.

As James MacDonald wrote, "To really be gripped by your identity in God's greatness you must wade out of the shallow waters of self-absorption into the deep waters of praising him at all times for all things.

J.I. Packer sees society's decline in this way: "The truth is that because we have lost touch with God and his word we have lost the secret both of community (because sin kills neighbor-love) and of our own identity (because at the deepest level we do not know who or what we are, or what we exist for)" (J.I. Packer, Knowing Man. (Westchester, IL: Cornerstone Books, 1978) p. 43).

All that is true about our God, and made true for us through the Gospel of Christ needs to come to life when we are troubled, tempted, or we sin.

Are we happy? I am God, I have created this parody]

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

I know faith. Therefore, I must embrace the crown of thorns. I seek the truth. Therefore, I must dare to disobey God.

Oh, God, oh, God. A sense of humor. She'd thought the hardly-even-a-hint she'd caught of it a while back had been a one-off thing, but that was a joke he'd just made. An honest-to-God joke! She wanted to have his baby.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Unlike the human spirit which is drawn from the infinite Spirit of God, the human soul is truly a new thing, coming into existence at the moment when God joins matter (earth) with His essence (spirit). This happens in the womb at the time of conception. From The Quiet Heart

None of that means my family's not spiritual. (Though what happened to Marvin has put me at odds with God these days.) To their credit, our parents have spent considerable time discussing the difference between Faith - the abiding belief in a Divine Creator that's as plain a part of a hundred-year-old oak tree, or a fiery red sunset, as the nose on your face - and Religion - which is the rigamarole that makes some folks figure they've got a leg up on everybody else.

It was one of the nights which do not come often in a lifetime, and which people never forget. The darkness seems full of meaning; the hush, full of sound. God is beyond, holding the sunrise in his right hand, holding the sun of our earthly hopes as well; will it dawn in sorrow or in joy? We dare not ask; we can only wait.

My faith in God has been the rudder that has allowed me to soar above the fray and to stay grounded and to learn from my mistakes.

I am sure the audience that looks on me as a Mahadev knows that at the end of the day, I am an actor playing a God. But that doesn't exonerate me from a social responsibility.