Quotes About God

Ik heb intussen het 3e Hoofdstuk voltooid, vol verguldsel, paars licht, Eeeuwig onvervulde liefdesverlangens, Jongens op bromfietsen, motregen en met oude canapé kleden behangen grotten. Het leven is veel groter dan ik het ooit zou kunnen beschrijven. En God is gek op me.

In things that are "below him," man has freedom in Luther's view to act as he sees fit. In things "above," however, the matter is different; there we encounter the problem of God's predestination.

Everyone, it seems, wants to do God the favor of making him less objectionable. Some say he is not absolute or omnipotent yet but is perhaps in the process of becoming so. Some say he is not infinite, but finite. Some even say he has obliged us all by dying!

A sacrament is an action in which the Word of God does something to us through the earthly sign. It is an action in which God gets through to us in a concrete way.

God is looking within each family for one intercessor who will "stand in the gap" and "put up a hedge" for the entire household.

I delight myself in You and Your Word. Because of that, You put Your desires within my heart.

How often I take for granted the astounding news that God loves me with a callous, "Yeah, yeah, he loves me, now what about God giving me what I want for myself right now?" I can fly right over the stunning surprise of this news. God created me and God loves me. Personally, individually, deeply, eternally, passionately.

The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup" (Psalm 16:5). What do you get when you come to the Supper, you compromised, double-hearted, double-minded, befouled cur? The triune God of grace himself is your portion. One drop would be beyond an eternity of deserving, but he pours in the unending wine of his presence. The cup overflows. The cup of salvation. Christ drank down the dregs of my sin and passed back the chalice filled with his precious blood, the wine of everlasting life.

We are blind to God unless he shines his light in our hearts. We are terrified of him unless he reveals his love. We are lost from him unless he makes a way.

The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him.

The louder our world today is, the deeper God seems to remain in silence. Silence is the language of eternity; noise passes.

The union of those who are destined to help each other on the way to God is deep and mysterious like nothing else on earth.

Surrender to God is the only absolute power that the creature possesses. Only the handmaid of the Lord is the Queen of Heaven.

Into this threefold prayer the praying woman includes the mysteries of her own motherhood, that through the mystery of the Mother of all mothers they may be uplifted. The earthly mother also has received her child from God; as his gift she has carried it and given it birth. Like Mary, she has presented it to God in the temple, and like her she has found it again in the temple.

To look upon religion as the ultimate source of morality, and hence of a good society and a sound policy, is not demeaning to religion. On the contrary, it pays religion—and God—the great tribute of being essential to the welfare of mankind. And it does credit to man as well, who is deemed capable of subordinating his lower nature to his higher, of venerating and giving obeisance to something above himself.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

Man is a free agent; but he is not free if he does not believe it, for the more power he attributes to Destiny, the more he deprives himself of the power which God granted him when he gave him reason.

With the sole aim of liberating themselves from the servitude of religion, which alone could preserve them in society, and, lacking any other restraint, they turned their backs upon the true God of their fathers, Adam and Noah, and descended into a bestial liberty in which, dispersed throughout the great forest of the earth, they lost their language and weakened every social custom.

Sin religión alguna de una Divinidad, jamás los hombres en nación se concertaron; y así comode cosas físicas, o sea de los movimientos de los cuerpos, no cabeciencia segura sin la guía de las verdades abstractas de la matemática, así no cabe en las cosas morales sin el aprecio de las verdades abstractas de la metafísica, y por tanto sin la demostración de Dios.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do

Anything is doable, when you believe in a God who is able to do what cannot be done, according to a human mind.

Be still, for God remains the same. Even when you are not strong. He still reigns supreme. He will give you strength.

Every glorious Gift comes from God. It is meant to change lives and lift His name on high.

God can enable you to do what is deemed impossible, because He can turn impossibilities into possibilities.