Quotes About God

If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together.

Smoke By Théophile Gautier Translated by Norman R. Shapiro Over there, trees are sheltering A hunchedback hut... A slum, no more... Roof askew, walls and wainscoting Falling away... Moss hides the door. Only one shutter, hanging... But Seeping over the windowsill, Like frosted breath, proof that this hut, This slum, is living, breathing still. Corkscrew of smoke... A wisp of blue Escapes the hovel, whose soul it is... Rises to God himself, and who Receives the news and makes it his.

By God a man is afraid more of himself than anything else; every day he is struggling to construct a God first to suit him, only then to others.

God is as real as mind and the mind is as real as nature.

Love is a discovery, God is an invention.

Originally, God was to save individual mind from despair if not disaster, love was an attempt by one mind to possess another mind and justice was a mind's concern for all other minds. In case of the first, mind is too weak and fearful to understand itself. In the second, the nature cripples the reason and over powers human mind! In the third situation, the reason is more evolved and makes the human mind to stand on its own and does what best is possible with respect to other minds!

We should not "go to church" to get our self-centered needs met. Instead we go to worship the one true God as we serve alongside other believers.

Church burnout will not take place if we are seeking to please God in our service rather than to please people.

La frase: personas necesitan que se les recuerde mas que se las instruya» es bien cierta. La gente tiende a olvidarse cual es la direccion de la iglesia. Es necesario recordarles a las personas sobre el proceso que Dios dio y que la iglesia adopto.

if you think Lone Ranger Christianity is acceptable to God, you need to read the New Testament again. It's time for millions of church members to connect relationally by getting involved in a group.

change leadership involves an ongoing prayer conversation with God to give you love for all the sheep. He will teach you how to love these sheep.

As leaders, we do not want to change people. We want God to change people. And that includes us leaders as well.

Being a good steward of those material things that God has given our churches is good. Becoming obsessed with any one item to the neglect of His mission is idolatry.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.

All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.

Increase this love in me, that in my innermost being I may taste the sweetness of your love. Melt my heart that I may swim in your love...Let me sing the song of your love and follow you into heaven, my beloved. Let my soul soar in your praise and rejoice in your love. Let me love you more than myself, and love myself only in you.

Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

The intention which is fixed on God as its only end will keep people steady in their purposes, and deliver them from being the joke and scorn of fortune.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider, nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is created above all things.

A lowly knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than the deep searching of a man's learnings. Not that learning is to be blamed, nor the taking account of anything that is good; but a good conscience and a holy life is better than all. And because many seek knowledge rather than good living, therefore they go astray, and bear little or no fruit.

Those who attempt to search into the majesty of God will be overwhelmed with His Glory!