Quotes About God

Great are the promises concerning this land of America. We are told unequivocally that it "is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be free from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but serve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ" (Ether 2:12). This is the crux of the entire matter—obedience to the commandments of God.

The things of God are understood by the Spirit of God. That Spirit is real. To those who have experienced its workings, the knowledge so gained is as real as that which is acquired through the operation of the five senses. I testify of this.

Show me a church's songs and I'll show you their theology.

One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story.

God has made us this way, in his own image, because he himself is a personal, relational being.

By the presence of the Spirit, God's love, played out to the full in Christ, is an experienced reality in the heart of the believer. This is what the Spirit has so richly "shed abroad in our hearts." If we are not thus overtaken by God himself at this crucial point, then all else is lost, and we are without peace, groveling before God, living with little real hope, and experiencing present sufferings as a cause for complaint and despair rather than for "boasting.

God is not simply saving diverse individuals and preparing them for heaven; rather he is creating a people for his name, among whom God can dwell and who in their life together will reproduce God's life and character in all its unity and diversity.

Everyone has a theology [that is, some rudimentary view of God and the world on the basis of which they live]; the question is not whether you have a theology—you do—but whether you have a good one.

turn to the Living God, so that we might turn to one another without fear and become the agents of love we were created to be.

Psalms of lament call on God to stop injustice and exploitation and oppression. By calling on God to intervene, the psalmist or the one praying the psalms is affirming that God is the utterly fair and all-knowing Judge.

In singing the psalms, one is actively committing oneself to following the God-approved life. This is what we are doing singing the psalms.

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said

The forming of the soul that it might be a dwelling place for God is the primary work of the Christian leader.

Bruce," I said, "the term Gail and I kicked around this morning that sums up what you've got there is inf luence, a holy influence. It pertains to men and women who renounce mediocrity and embrace the possibility that God can use them

It is not known precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, in the void, or in the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousand truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing a while upon the roof and then fly away.

CIVILIZATION. A concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of God.

God is muttering something about love, peace, and happiness, but we can't hear him over society's deafening uproar.

Consider the flea! Incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Calm on the bosom of thy God, Young spirit! rest thee now...

...Though much it seems a wonder and a wo That one so loved should be so early lost, And hallowed tears may unforbidden flow To mourn the blossom that we cherished most: Yet all is well; God's good design I see, That where our treasure is, our hearts may be!

Throughout history, the desert has been a place of trial, penance, and hard-won revelation. God lives in the desert. But Satan does, too.

Space is a never-ending race track. The thermal shock region on the prow of our solar system, for example, is screaming through the heavens at 490,000 miles an hour. Earth is hurtling round the sun at 67,000 miles an hour. God, it seems, is a complete speed freak.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.