Quotes About God

These are God's thoughts and intentions toward us. He is for us, not against us. None of these letters begin with "Shame, Guilt, and Condemnation to you" because that is not God's heart toward us, grace is.

Missing someone you love is a tribute to that person and to his or her influence in your life. Moving forward, making the necessary adjustments, and finding new purpose for yourself is a tribute to God and to His influence in your life.

The Lord is gracious (Psalm 111:4). He is the giver of grace (Proverbs 3:34). He is the God of all grace (1 Peter 5:10). His throne is a throne of grace (Hebrews 4:16). The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of grace (Hebrews 10:29). Our message is called "The Gospel of the Grace of God" and "The Word of His Grace" (Acts 20:24, 32).

The prophets of old prophesied of the grace that should come to us (1 Peter 1:10). This grace came by Jesus (John 1:17). Jesus was full of grace, and it is from His fullness that we receive one grace after another (John 1:14,16). The grace of God was upon Jesus and gracious words proceeded out of His mouth (Luke 2:40; 4:22). It was by grace that Jesus tasted of death for every man (Hebrews 2:9).

The only proof of God in the world was color. Everything would have worked the same without it. So why would the world have been made so full of color if there wasn't a God?

I've said all along that God is in control.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

Many in our society want the benefits of freedom without its responsibilities and boundaries. They want "God bless America," but not one nation under God.

If you don't know the truth, or if you don't act on the truth, the shield of faith is impotent. In order to have faith, you have to know and respond to truth. And as we saw earlier, truth is fundamentally God's viewpoint on a matter.

Religion can be one of the greatest hindrances to faith because it creates dependency on a ritual rather than on the God of the universe who can do all things.

Putting on the shoes of peace can help you make good choices. God says when you allow His peace to rule your life, He will call the shots. When you're worrying about what you're supposed to do, He will calm your heart and your mind by giving you peace.

Faith is acting as if God is telling the truth. It is acting as if something is true even when it doesn't appear to be true in order that it might be shown to be true simply because God said it's true.

The building was of stone, originally erected, Leaphorn had been told, by a Church of Christ missionary early in McGinnis's tenure as trader and postmaster. It had been abandoned after the preacher's optimism had been eroded by his inability to cause the Dinee to accept the idea that God had a personal and special interest in humans.

Research shows that those who believe in a wrathful God are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders than those who believe in a loving, merciful God.

God is one with the powerless, one with the hopeless, one with the broken. And we know this because of Jesus. Jesus is the most fully realized revelation of God that we've got, and what we can see of God in the life of Jesus is the perfect example of self-limitation and humility.

In other words, God's love is not a characteristic of God. For example, maybe you've heard someone say, "Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice." Or, "Without justice, love is not possible." These statements talk of God's love as an attribute of God. But, for Eastern Christians, God's very nature is love. It's not an aspect of God's being, it is God's very being.

If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don't notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn't want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn't really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence.

this: The work of atonement that is accomplished on the cross is one of invitation into the eternal, loving relationship of the Trinity—ultimately, into union with God.

If we are supposed to learn about love from God, then the idea that God predestined us to sin, which results in our eternal damnation and requires God's Son to die on the cross, teaches us very little about love.

God cannot be bound by a law, a moral code, a universal sense of justice, or a "deep magic from the dawn of time." God could have forgiven us of our sin however God wanted too—with or without the execution of his son.

Jesus, uniquely at one with God, taught that the ultimate rule is love and that any other religious rule that did not extend God's reign of love needed to be reconsidered. Jesus hinted that this rule of love was even to be extended to non-Jews, and this became a major theme of Paul's ministry and writing a couple of decades later.

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So when Jesus defended his disciples for picking grain on the Sabbath, he was essentially telling his interrogators that they misunderstood God's relationship with human beings. He was saying, in effect, Yes, there are rules, but don't let the rules get in the way of loving God and others. And when Jesus healed a leper, he was giving an object lesson in the same: by the power of God's Spirit, the people who have been excluded are now included.

Possibly the most famous quote in all of Orthodox theology comes from Athanasius (c. 293–373), who in his book, On the Incarnation, wrote of Christ, "For he was made man so that we might become God.