Quotes About God

Doug cleared his throat and said, "Bonnie Raitt once told me coincidence is God's way of staying anonymous.

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

I may wonder what kind of mission God has for me, when I should be asking what kind of me God wants for his mission.

Tell someone to stop sinning and at best they may do so reluctantly and partially. But give them a vision of knowing God and his glory, and they'll gladly root out all that gets in the way of their relationship with God (Hebrews 12:1–3).

God offers Moses everything without God, but Moses doesn't want everything. He wants God. And so he declines the offer. The blessings of the promised land are secondary to the true blessing which is God himself.

All too often we think of holiness as giving up the pleasures of sin for some worthy but drab life. But holiness means recognizing that the pleasures of sin are empty and temporary, while God is inviting us to magnificent, true, full, and rich pleasures that last forever.

Wright talks about how, in his role as chaplain, he would talk with students about their beliefs. Many would defiantly announce to him that they did not believe in God. So he would ask them to describe the "God" they did not believe in. Usually, they described a remote, deistic "God". "I don't believe in that 'God' either," he would reply. And then he would begin to talk about Jesus Christ.

All the things we enjoy, says John Calvin, are "ladders by which we may ascend nearer to God". "God," he says, "by his benefits, gently attracts us to himself, giving us a taste of his fatherly sweetness". But Calvin also warns, "There is nothing into which we more easily fall than into a forgetfulness of him, especially when we enjoy peace and comfort".

Another form that this tendency to tritheism takes concerns our views of other religions. Some people suggest that non-Christians can genuinely know God apart from Jesus- an idea sometimes called "anonymous Christianity". But the unity of the Trinity means we cannot know God without Jesus. They cannot be divided so that one person of the Trinity can be known apart from the others.

By delaying repentance, we step away from the love and life of God.

It is bad enough when rich Christians shoe little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.

Tu matrimonio es para mostrar que es bueno vivir bajo el gobierno de Dios.

John Calvin says, "No one gives himself freely and willingly to God's service unless, having tasted his fatherly love, he is drawn to love and worship him in return.

We also have a new motivation to battle with sin: we're no longer under law, but under grace. This is counterintuitive. People think that law and legalism will best motivate us to strive to do what's right. But it's grace that enables us to live for God. "For

But we can never change enough to impress God. And here's the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my looking good. It is done for my glory. And that's pretty much the definition of sin. Sin is living for my glory instead of God's.

The Puritan Richard Sibbes says, "What a comfort is this, that seeing God's love rests on Christ, as well pleased in him, we may gather that he is as well pleased with us, if we be in Christ!

Christianity is word-centered because God rules through his gospel word.

There is nothing that God expects you to do that you cannot do. The sin that defeats you need not defeat you. The fears that consume you need not consume you. The people who terrify you need not terrify you. You have the Spirit of life within you empowering you to know God and follow Christ.

Glory be to you, God the Father, for such a way of recovery for undone sinners. Glory be to you, God the Son, for you have loved me and washed me in your own blood. Glory be to you, God the Holy Spirit, for your power has turned my heart from sin to God.

Seeing God as our Father radically changes your attitude to religious duties. It turns religion into relationship.

Sacrifice becomes an opportunity to express our delight in God. What we give up seems small in comparison to what we're gaining.

Our actions don't make us Christians or make us more of a Christian or keep us as Christians—for our union with God is all his work. Our actions do make a difference to our enjoyment of God—for our communion with God (our enjoyment of our union with God) involves a two-way relationship.

The growth of God's kingdom is synonymous with the spread of God's word. The kingdom grows through the word as it elicits faith.

What a strange god to worship. I'm sure he's great at answering your prayers, as long as you want a stick fetching or a cat chasing away.