Quotes About God

All of the Cyclades are numinous islands, but Delos lies like a poem in the sea. She washed and cradled the archpoet Apollo and first took him for god.

La meta de la nueva vida en Cristo es que los hijos de Dios exhiban la "melodía y armonía" de Dios en su conducta. ¿Qué melodía? La canción del Dios de justicia. ¿Qué armonía? La armonía entre la justicia de Dios y nuestra obediencia.

Hunger for Christ keeps us talking to God till our separation is swallowed up in our unending togetherness with him. Till this union is complete, he who keeps our prayers awaits our union. After all, God hungers for union with us even more than we desire union with him. And prayer is the rails on which our two desires move toward each other. Our devotion moves us from separateness into oneness with God, and the resulting joy is worth the journey.

John Hines said, "Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen—not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

Most of these super-sovereigns feel that God can comment if he wants to, but God must avoid getting loud. While God is welcome to his opinions, he is only one voice, and he doesn't get extra points just for being God. The unstudied opinionated are prone to say, even to God, "Yes, but here's what I think." In such a world, classic apologetics has lost much of its force.

Tutored by secularists, they want God on their own terms, and prefer a worship service in which there's a lot of smiling.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

People come to church with their hearts on their sleeves. They are longing to be told that God loves them.9 They want to be told that they are special to God and the very fact that he loves them means they have significance.

The human spirit is either a treasure chest or a junk box. We were designed to bear the power of God, but the debaucheries of our hearts can quickly fill the space intended for God.

The world is looking for answers. If you have some of them, for goodness' sake spit 'em out. The world is looking for servants of God whose yes is yes. How elementary, how refreshing.

Hate sometimes stands quite close to love. God too stands often near to evil—like silent chessmen—side by side. Only the color of the squares is different.

To God obscenity is not uncovered flesh. It is exposed intention. Nakedness is just a state of heart.

the Bible never says those who believe in God will be saved; only those who believe that He had a Son who rose from the dead can be saved (Rom. 10:9). Talk about narrow doctrine; we who have accepted Christ as

we have no right to claim a love for God while we walk the selfish ledges of disregard for what God requires of us. Utter

We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement ...

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

We have become the revisionist society. We rewrite history in favor of viewpoints. We rewrite ethics in favor of "what's right is what makes you feel good after." Political correctness puts Jesus and Buddha on the same low shelf. Gender inclusivity has us tied up in proper pronouns. Since God goes undefined, His expectations have been missing for some time, and sin is what you do that hurts others.

With what dread and apprehension we entrust important jobs into the hands of others. Imagine the love of a needless God who is willing to want our work.

enjoy the mysteries of God in all their hiddenness, and your life will thrive on the power of a God too vast for you to track.

God needs only a little of our agreement in order to work mighty wonders.

Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.

Believing that all has been ordained by God can lead to fatalism, but fatalism is not the same thing as belief. It's a cheat: an abdication of responsibility.