Quotes About God

The wisdom of God is seen in making the most desperate evils turn to the good of his children. As several poisonable ingredients, wisely tempered by the skill of the artist, make a sovereign medicine, so God makes the most deadly afflictions co-operate for the good of his children. He purifies them, and prepares them for heaven. 2 Cor 4: I7. These hard frosts hasten the spring flowers of glory.

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids us repent—and why? That our sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19. He commands us to believe—and why? That we may be saved. Acts 16:31. There is love in every command. It is as if a king should bid one of his subjects dig in a gold mine, and then keep the gold for himself.

What is the reason the word works so differently? It is because the Spirit of God carries the word to the conscience of one and not another. One has receive the divine unction and not the other.

cuando la gracia entra en el corazón, oh qué cambio está ahí! Prepondera la gracia, se presenta frente a la rebelión de la voluntad- hace a un hombre de otro espíritu! convierte el furor de león, en una dulzura de paloma! cambia el odio en delicia! pone un nuevo sesgo en la voluntad! Actúa una espontaneidad y la alegría en servicio de Dios. "tu pueblo será un pueblo dispuesto en el día de tu poder," Salmo 110.8.

A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

As therefore we cherish our salvation and the honor of true religion, let us shine in that orb of relationships where God has placed us.

The Scripture is a love letter which the great God has written to us. We must not run it over in haste, but meditate upon God's wisdom in writing, and his love in sending it to us.

Glorious things are spoken of God; he transcends our thoughts, and the praises of angels. God's glory lies chiefly in his attributes, which are the several beams by which the divine nature shines forth. Among other of his orient excellencies, this is not the least, The Lord is a God of knowledge; or as the Hebrew word is, 'A God of knowledges.

It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.

The godly understand the mystery of living by faith: "The just shall live by faith" (Heb. 10:38). They can trust God's heart where they cannot trace his hand. They can get comfort out of a promise, as Moses got water out of the rock (Exod. 17:6).

A shaking hand may as well write a line steadily, as we can keep our hearts fixed in prayer without the Spirit of God.

igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.

He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28).

Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after God.

In heaven we will need no repentance, because we will have no sin. We will not need faith, because we will see God face to face. But love to God will abide forever. Love never fails (1 Corinthians 13:8).

A judge judges only matters of fact, but God judges the heart. He not only judges wicked actions, but wicked designs. He sees the treason of the heart and punishes it.

never complain as long as Christ is thy friend; he is an enriching pearl, a sparkling diamond; the infinite lustre of his merits makes us shine in God's eyes. (Ep. 1. 7)

Affliction teaches what sin is. In the word preached, we hear what a dreadful thing sin is, that it is both defiling and damning, but we fear it no more than a painted lion; therefore God lets loose affliction, and then we feel sin bitter in the fruit of it. A sick-bed often teaches more than a sermon.

The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others. Phil 1:10. Christ shall be magnified in my body.

Worry that is either untrusting or distracting is very dishonorable to God. It

Faith and fear go hand in hand. When the soul looks at God's holiness, he fears. When he looks at God's promises, he believes. A godly man trembles—yet trusts. Fear preserves reverence, faith preserves cheerfulness. Fear keeps the soul from lightness, faith keeps it from sadness.

God's method in calling sinners may vary, but the effect is still the same.