Quotes About God

The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?' God knows the precise moment he will call you home, my dear brothers. You will not stay on this earth one second longer than God ordains! Nor will you be swept up to heaven's peace a moment too soon. You are in his hands. So travel this life with that confidence tucked close against your heart!

I ain't one to question the Lord's goodness, but sometimes it sure feels like he can give a body too much to bear, don't it?

How intricate were the stitches with which God was weaving the tapestry of her life. And how often did the blessings therein exact a price more dear, and further reaching, than she would ever comprehend this side of eternity.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you . . . Casting all your care on him; for he careth for you. When

God had to humble you before He could raise you up. So get ready to be raised!

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

I want you to live in confidence that when God looks at you, He sees beauty. He sees value. He sees hope. And that even when you're hiding, or when you're so beaten down you can't see anything clearly, He's still hard at work, crafting a beautiful future of relationship with Him and with others.

when we encounter others, we are in some way encountering Him. At the very least, we are encountering someone God sees and loves the same way that He sees and loves us. We are not only invited but commanded to shift our perspective and see these other people as God sees them and respond to them as though they were Jesus Himself.

Always trust your instinct! If you just close your eyes, talk to God and listen you can always hear the truth

I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time off for good behavior.

Daniel's voice brushed along my cheek like dark feathers, like a long night wind coming down from some far mountain. Take what you want and pay for it, says God.

She must have thought, sometimes, of her namesake, the votary branded with her god's most inventive and sadistic curse: to tell the truth, and never to be believed.

branded with her god's most inventive and sadistic curse: to tell the truth, and never to be believed.

Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum.

Use it to remember you have only one life to live. Seek God, and a thousand adventures and dreams will pursue you. - Where Dandelions Bloom

The darker side of the City tried to emphasize the selfish parts of me by encouraging my sense of entitlement and my desire for personal space. But God seemed to whisper that the alternative existed: to let Him grow humility and concern for others in a way I had never experienced, to live out His peace amid whirling chaos. (p.67)

Isaiah 26:3 is true. When you trust God to be good and do good, you don't have to fear. When you know His love has already worked out your future, you can face the struggles with peace. This all begins with learning His character, which is revealed most clearly in the Word. I can attest to a definite correlation in my hopefulness and the amount of time I spend reading His words to us. When I see how flawless His track record is, it helps me trust Him.

Before God and in conscience, Muslims cannot satisfy themselves by repeating what the texts say and then snap their fingers at daily social realities: that would be to speak of an ideal while at the same time blind themselves as to their daily betrayal.

That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: "God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.

There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].

In Islam, every action, when undertaken in the remembrance of God, is considered sacred.

The 13th century author and scholar, Imam An-Nawawi (1233–1277) asserts that there are two stages to faith: "the faith of the trader" who gives himself to God in exchange for Paradise and, beyond this, "the faith of the one who draws close" – who dedicates himself to God in an act of pure love. The notion of exchange disappears to make room for total, complete and free love.

This is the profound meaning of at-tawbah, offered to everyone: sincerely returning to God after a slip, a mistake, a sin. God loves that sincere return to Him and He forgives and purifies. The

I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?