Quotes About God

They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em– nor God– nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?

We do things FROM our mothers—not FOR them. We don't have to do things FOR them—they don't need it, you know. But we have to live on—splendidly—because of them; and that's the way we feel about God.

God has far better things to do than creating self-important little species such as ours. He's got wars, deaths, disasters and diseases to ignore for starters. And a fair bit of not-exist-ing-at-all to be getting on with.

But no you were going over the lecture on Saint Augustine and you were saying God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Well you were saying it with a good amount of mocking but I have seen from the start that you are a very sweet and immensely gentle being. And maybe you were thinking what I have come to. That sometimes it is necessary to go without human love so God's love can touch us more completely.

Mark's Gospel originally was written to help imperial subjects learn the hard truth about their world and themselves. He does not pretend to represent the word of God dispassionately or impartially, as if that word were innocuously universal in its appeal to rich and poor alike.

Political readings can no longer skirt the implications of the cornerstone of New Testament faith—Jesus crucified as the justice of God.

Many stories of the Bible tell of a person who prayed multiple times. Jesus himself prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane (see Matthew 26:36–44). Paul asked three times for his "thorn in the flesh" to be removed (2 Corinthians 12:7–9 KJV). And Elijah prayed to God seven times for rain before the drops began to pour from the sky (see 1 Kings 18). Perseverance in prayer is never nagging. God loves to hear your voice.

JESUS, I am thankful that I can worship you right where I am. I will enter your courts with thanksgiving. I will kneel at the mercy seat and find forgiveness. I will call out your name in praise. Lord, I pray for those who do not have intimacy with the living God. You have already made the pilgrimage for them. Open their eyes to see that they can find you right here, right now.

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it? —HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1832–1911), American lay speaker and author

The word used for Lord in Proverbs 3:5–6 is a covenant name meaning "a God we know and who knows us." We can trust people only if we know them. The same goes for God.

Prayer, even prayer for what God desires, releases power by the operation of a deep spiritual law; and to offer up what one loves may release still more. —SHELDON VANAUKEN (1914–1996), American author and editor

PRECIOUS FATHER, you are the almighty Lord of the universe, and yet you are my friend. May I not grieve your Spirit but rather return the love that you have given me without reservation. I give you my heart, Lord. Thank you for walking with me during difficult times. I rejoice in the peace and shelter of your love that comes only from knowing you.   IT IS BUT RIGHT THAT OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE ON GOD, WHEN THE HEART OF GOD IS SO MUCH ON US. Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

Life's major pursuit is not knowing self . . . but knowing God. . . . Unless God is the major pursuit of our lives, all other pursuits are dead-end streets, including trying to know ourselves. CHARLES R. SWINDOLL (B. 1934)

You're a hard negotiator, Ray-Baby." "I'm going to get a lot harder if you call me that again." "Give me a minute. Less than a minute. I'm almost certain I can make a filthy joke in response to that." "No", I told him. "No, for the love of God, don't.

It's a very fine line indeed, and a seductive message at its core: God loves some of us, and is coming for us—and he'll destroy everything and everyone we don't like. It's a great galactic game of "Just wait until your Father gets home!

What a horrible reason to shoot someone, as if any decent god gives a damn how he's worshipped, so long as it's directed heavenward with love?

I hoped to God that I was overstating the urgency, but my internal Panic O'Matic assured me that heavily armed commandos were already rifling through my underwear drawer.

Seriously, God! Did You have to choose me as the poster child for the single-and-waiting-on-God girl?

I've prayed countless prayers to God saying, "Please take this desire away." But He hasn't! I even asked, "Just take the desire away until you're ready to give it to me. Hold it in a box. Duct tape it closed for later because I don't want to desire anything that you don't have for me right now! It hurts too much.

There are some people, I realize, who may not be called to marriage. I can't say with certainty that every person who wants to be married will be. Only God knows what He intends for each of us.

In the same way you can find God in the beauty of nature, you can find God in the beauty of the destitute. We're not meant to just admire the trees, we're meant to share life.

Death doesn't take away the impact they made on our lives or their importance to God. To be gone from here is to be present in glory. It doesn't feel like it now, but I assure you each day will get a little easier. Each week will add more distance from the pain.

Look at all those stars. God has fireworks on display all the time, doesn't He?

Perhaps opening his heart to the Lord could be the first step in opening his life to a chance at happiness again.