Quotes About God

Girl, I'd warn you that God Almighty's goin' to strike you dead, exceptin' I been warnin' your mama that for years, and he in his infinite mercy has so far seen fit to withhold his lightnin'.

We cannot listen to the voice of God in a hurry.

The more we train ourselves to spend time with God and him alone, the more we will discover that God is with us at all times and in all places. Henri Nouwen

The usual way in which we try to become like God is first to eliminate the God who reveals himself in human form and reimagine God as the god I want to be, invest this reimagined god with my own god fantasies, and then take charge of the god business.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Fifty-five crystal spheres geared to God's crankshaft is my idea of a satisfying universe. I can't think of anything more trivial than quarks, quasars, big bangs, and black holes.

Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant nonrenewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully, intentionally, wisely, and productively.

God wants to be the center of your life, not to simply be imbedded in a slice of it.

Worship and spiritual hunger make you so attractive to God that your circumstances cease to matter anymore. He will move heaven and earth to find a worshiper. When you begin to worship with all your being and desire, your heart turns Him toward you. You capture His attention and attracts His affection.

I am tired of reading about God's visitations of yesteryear. I want God to break out somewhere in my lifetime so that in the future my children can say, "I was there. I know; it's true." God has no grandchildren. Each generation must experience His presence. Recitation was never meant to take the place of visitation.

There is much more of God available than we have ever known or imagined, but we have become so satisfied with where we are and what we have that we don't press in for God's best.

O plano satânico consiste em nos manter tão cheios de lixo, que não tenhamos fome de Deus, e isto tem funcionado muito bem por séculos. O inimigo tem nos feito acostumar a sobreviver em uma prosperidade terrena, porém, em uma mendicância espiritual.

Não importa o que você precise ou o que falte em sua vida - o que você realmente precisa é de Deus.

Não importa o que façamos: somente o arrependimento vai nos levar a algum lugar com Deus.

Se você é um pastor e está sob a unção de Deus, prega melhor. Mas debaixo da glória de Deus, tropeça, gagueja, não consegue fazer nada. (...) Por quê? Porque Deus declarou que carne nenhuma vai se gloriar em Sua presença.

Não devemos concorrer com o mundo nas áreas em que ele é muito competente, ou até melhor que nós. Mas existe algo com que o mundo não é capaz de competir: a presença de Deus.

To be a blessing to anybody on this earth, you must first be blessed. You can only give what you have received. God wants to deepen, bless and enrich your relationship with Him so that you can give away your relationship with Him to this impersonal, lonely, sorrow-filled, dying world.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

It wasn't a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human.

They did not believe Nature was ever askew–only inconvenient. Plague and drought were as "natural" as springtime. If milk could curdle, God knows robins could fall.

God's generosity is nowhere better seen than in the gift of patience.

God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

You have to understand that, Lord. You said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and harm them not. Did you forget? Did you forget about the children? Yes. You forgot. You let them go wanting, sit on road shoulders, crying next to their dead mothers. I've seen them charred, lame, halt. You forgot, Lord. You forgot how and when to be God.

It was an opportunity to intervene at the heart of the problem: to bring God and language to natives who were assumed to have neither; to alter their diets, their clothes, their minds; to help them despise everything that had once made their lives worthwhile and to offer them instead the privilege of knowing the one and only God and a chance, thereby, for redemption. (227)