Quotes About God

of God in my life. I surrender my mind, my heart, my need for safety, and my need for rational explanations and orderly instructions to God's will for me. I trust that all that is in my life is as it should be. I release

a mystic is someone who "perceives" life through the eyes of the soul, who experiences the power of God rather than speaks or debates the politics of God

Grace is the breath of God—an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. It is not only possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force, grace is immediately accessible to us along with the courage to follow divine guidance.

With you, God, all things are possible, including my healing.

Your highest purpose is what your soul can accomplish in union with your ego and God, not in opposition to them.

As Meister Eckhart wrote in The Soul Is One with God, the ultimate aim of the mystic is identity: "God is love, and he who is in love is in God and God in him.

Grandpa, why am I like this?" he had asked. "If God made everyone just alike, the world would be a boring place, now wouldn't it?" Grandpa had answered.

Would you pray for her?" Amelia saw a faint sliver of light at the end of the dark tunnel. "Yep, I would pray that God would send her straight to hell." Liddy's tone had gone ice cold.

Cyrus's momma thinks I'm a gift from God. I didn't have the heart to tell her if I was then God was guilty of handing out gag gifts, Joyce said.

cracked. The tub was as old as God and pitted. There

According to the sermon that night, God worked things out. Whether folks liked it or not was up to them. They could be bitter or they could be better. Bitter had the letter I in it, and every single time people put themselves first, it became a problem that created a bitter attitude.

It doesn't cause me to doubt God's existence, but it does force me to admit there's a lot about God I don't understand.

First and foremost, God is the true hero of the story. No matter how captivating the other characters may be, our top priority is to discover what the Bible reveals about God.

A solitary image bearer cannot adequately or accurately reveal God in the world, much less fulfill his destiny as a human being. Obviously, this is a matter of grave importance to the Creator.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.

God never retires his image bearers.

Adam is one. But the God he represents is trinitarian--three in one. A solitary image bearer is missing a key component of God's image and is therefore incapable of revealing God in the world, much less fulfilling his destiny as a human being. Little wonder God says, 'It is not good for the man to be alone.

God created our emotions to work in harmony with our other two most fundamental faculties: our mind and our will.

As Christian women, this is the attitude that should characterize our lives. We are to be women who love our homes. We are not to merely workers at home, but we are to take great pleasure in working in our homes. We are to thoroughly enjoy the sphere that God has assigned to us.

God has a purpose for our feelings -- the good and the bad.

Stifling our emotions is like marking return to sender on God's good gift.

The woman who looks to God in the face of unkindness becomes more beautiful through suffering. Her face does not bear the lines of bitterness and a disturbed countenance. She displays a rare and remarkable beauty because she has learned to wait upon God. Her happiness is out of reach of those who have wronged her.

Submission is simply a demonstration of her confidence in the sovereign power of the Lord God.