Quotes About God

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.

There is a purpose in everything that God allows. Second

Through a diligent study of God's Word, under the guidance of His Spirit, you'll drop a strong anchor that will hold in the storms of life. You will know your God. And when you know your God, not only will you be strong, but you will do great exploits for Him (Daniel 11:32).

Life can get distorted and out of whack when you don't know God. And you can't really know Him in truth apart from the Word of God. Look around you at the lives people are living. Find out how important the Bible is in their lives and how much time they devote to studying it. Notice the relationship between their knowledge of God and the way they handle life.

Serving God, valuable as that might be, is no substitute for knowing Him and communicating with Him. Real service flows out of relationship, not obligation.

glorious aspects? Do you desire to truly walk by the Spirit, not giving in to the pull of the world and the flesh? Do you yearn for God's balm to heal the wounds of the past? Would you like to face each day with quiet confidence and bold faith, fully prepared to cope with whatever it brings? All this and more—all the abundance of life promised by Christ—comes with surrender, my friend. For believers, surrendering to God is not a one-time occurrence;

HEAVENS NEED FURNACES Heavens need furnaces, The factories where dross converts to light gasses. The sloughed skins of dreams are instant fuel, remarkably full of oil like creosote bushes. Your worst losses warm angels; despair puts a glint on God's hair. And the nicest surprise is the substance that rises when you know you can't get there from here.

For me God existed in Primo Levi's writing, in the moments of reprieve he described when one human granted another respect in that godless wasteland of cruelty.

God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit. As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth. I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...] I learned God's true language is only silence and breath.

That's what I would say about poetry and prayer. That god or audience--the intended direction of both of those--we wish and wish are real.

Every time I walk these streets I think we made some kinda bet with God and lost.

Angels told me you're the poison, and always have been. Said you used God as an excuse to hurt people, includin' your own kin.

God is a philosophical black hole - the point where reason breaks down.

God is the ultimate philosophical questioner, the one who asks the logically paradoxical ultimate philosophical question about the nature of his own existence.

Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists.

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

The existence of God is not logically necessary, and yet, on the basis of some profound peculiar empirical order in the universe, it seems that He exists as the ultimate uncreated Being, implying a paradox, as no logically unnecessary entity can be uncreated. This paradox is the ultimate question asked by God, who is nothing but the ultimate questioner.

The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a solipsist.

if all truth has its source in God and if all truth is unified, then one thing we know to be a fact is that if there is a contradiction between an interpretation of Scripture and an interpretation of what God has created, then one or both of those interpretations is incorrect.

In his commentary on Titus 1:12, for example, Calvin states: "All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.

Indeed, truth itself may be defined as that which corresponds to reality as perceived by God.

All truth meets at the top. This is so because all truth is God's truth. It is not only His truth because He possesses it and He yields sovereign control over it, but also because He is the source and fountainhead of all truth. He is the source of all truth not only because all truth derives from Him but because He is the necessary condition for all apprehension of truth.