Quotes About God

Christmas trees are a nice tradition. Green in the midst of winter, light in the midst of darkness—it's all metaphors for God.

What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.

Who does not tremble when he considers how to deal with his wife For not only is he bound to love her but so to live with her that he may return her to God pure and without stain when God who gave shall demand His own again.

In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.

We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham.

You talk to God your crazy, God talks to you your a Saint!

May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.

Especially given the severity of some of her curses. God help him if any of them ever came true. Why, he'd be a two-headed, three-toed, monkey-nosed, blind son of a cesspit-licking lackey if she had her way. (Braden)

I will tell no one what I know of the two of you. But I would ask one small price for my silence. (Damien) And that is? (Rowena) If you still believe in God, then say a prayer for me. He turned a deaf ear to my pleas long ago. (Damien)

Rains are an act of God in India. And God as we know is a law unto himself. He is not responsible, neither is He accountable. That is the essence of God: He gives with two hands and takes away with eight more. Why else would Indian gods and goddesses have several pairs of hands?

Overholding the vision, no matter how applaudable the vision may be, makes us prone to missing the vision God inspires within others for mission and witness. Moreover, unconsciously subjugating the vision of others leads to ministry with a heavy hand, the goal being to implant our vision of faithfulness on others.

There are lessons in life such as patience, resilience, and deep peace apart from what may or may not be happening that cannot be learned on the mountaintop, no matter how high the mountain. Certain precious gems of life may be found only in the low places, places where, because God is everywhere, God is, as much as God is anywhere else.

My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders.

They may think they understand how God works, but if were were able to understand how God works, we wouldn't need faith, now would we?

I know exactly what Einstein meant when he said, "Dancers are the athletes of God." You three look like angels. I can't wait to see you dancing in the Christmas concert.

You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them.

In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.

And though this encounter took place against an African sky, our brief enchantment symbolized the new world's greatest taboo - the hand of a very black man caressing the face of the blackest woman, with no shred of light entering into it, utter darkness alone representing God (71).

But somehow, once you start playing behind the steering wheel of God, you realize just how powerful it is to be the imagination driving the natural world (64).

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.

Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.

Here's the bottom line: God is in the people business. More than anything He wants us to become like His Son, Jesus. To do this He will love us, bless us, discipline us, and develop us by the power of His Holy Spirit so that we become all He wants us to be.

The normal Christian Life is not supposed to be an exhausting wrestling match with a dead man, but is an abundant, joy-filled life with God, salted with an occasional season of strong resistance from our archenemy.