Quotes About God

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

While we have been pursuing God he has been rushing toward us with reckless love arms flung wide to hug us home.

God doesn't offer his Word as a magic fix-all pill that we can ingest and feel better. Rather, God's Word is the way in which we are invited to encounter the real 'person' of God.

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project-a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

If the word of God dwells within us, then God speaks to others, however inarticulately, through the language of our life.

Call it God, call it the Atman, call it whatever you like. You know the Gita: The recollected mind is awake In the knowledge of the Atman Which is dark night to the ignorant: The ignorant are awake in their sense-life Which they think is daylight: To the seer it is darkness.

A child in a Christian school class asked her teacher, "How could anybody create everything in six days from nothing?" Another very discerning young student blurted out, "But God is not just anybody !

No one was innocent in the sight of God anyway. Now imagine the cannibalism, rape, murder, child sacrifice, and so on. Yet God was patient. He gave a 120-year countdown to the Flood (Genesis 6:313) and even sent a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:514).

Did you realize that one of the few commands given to mankind through Adam was "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:286)? If man had intense disobedience to God (e.g., Genesis 6:5,7 6:128) 120 years prior to the Flood (Genesis 6:39), are we to believe they were still being obedient to God's command here? Likely not!

It is not a matter of opinion, yours or mine. It is what God says that matters. The

Trebuie sa reintarim in gandirea noastra si in a ceea a bisericilor noastre crestine ca Biblia este Cuvantul lui Dumnezeu si ca Dumnezeu are autoritate absoluta asupra vietilor noastre. Trebuie sa ascultam ceea ce ne spune El cu privire la principiile de traire in fiecare domeniu al vietii, indiferent de care este parerea altora. Argumentele bazate pe oameni, indreptate inspre opinii, se strecoara in biserica pe multe cai.

You did not invent marriage. God did.

according to the text, numbering the people was nearly a year-long process, and there is no clear indication that God had suspended the initial

I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!

But Jacob knew that if God wanted Esau to have the inheritance, God would have made it happen. God is in control. We should all learn that lesson from Jacob.

the Lord my God in whom I trust said unto me, Thou shalt lack nothing, for I will bless thee in all the works of thy hands.

What started false religions? In the beginning everyone knew Noah and believed in the one true God. The Scriptures call Babylon the mother of all false religions, because under Nimrod the original false religious system was successfully implemented.

has been speculated that the scapegoat represents Jesus taking away our sin. That is one possible interpretation. If the information given in the Mishnah is correct, another picture emerges. Two identical goats, one dedicated to God, the other dedicated to Satan.

The worship of a god of forces is a very ancient form of paganism that teaches we are evolving into gods. Followers believe the force that once was the original creator God, was emptied out into creation. See Ancient Paganism for details. The Antichrist will claim he is the most advanced god. He will deny

It is interesting to note that if you string together the Hebrew names of Mishael, Hananiah, and Azariah, you form a sentence which can read "the one who is like God [Jesus the Messiah] will bring Yahweh's grace and help." If you string together the Babylonian names they mean absolutely nothing. To me this reveals God is in complete control even to the point of giving you your name!

1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god." Daniel 1:1-2 According

In 987 AM, God raptured Enoch as the Scripture says: "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." Genesis 5:24

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put My law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be My people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour