Quotes About God

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

The Enemy dug his claws into Paul, but the deeper he dug, the more the apostle learned about grace. Rather than wallowing in pain to bring attention to himself, Paul rejoiced in his pain and directed the attention to God. Satan always loses when people in pain learn that God's grace is sufficient-regardless of whether He removes the pain.

The Enemy invites us to focus on ourselves, while genuine worship requires us to focus on God.

What prompts you and me to keep going through the hard times of life? God's presence. Nothing more and nothing less. Nothing else.

When it comes to football, God is prejudiced - toward big, fast kids.

For God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew."15

God is jealous of His unique prerogatives. His purpose is authentication, not for us to indulge in divination.

am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. (Isa. 45:5–6)

How does the God of the universe demonstrate infinite love? By allowing man to get in a predicament that only God's death could solve. No greater love hath any man than he that lays down his life for his friends. And nothing less than the death of God Himself availed to satisfy His holiness and justice.

The history of the Bible can be viewed as a Tale of Two Cities: Babylon as the City of Man; Jerusalem as the City of God. Both of them have their beginnings in Genesis and both of them are prominent in the climax of the book of Revelation. They represent ideas, not just locales.

The candlestick is their witness to the world. It's their light in the darkness. This is not a warning that the people will lose their salvation - that's not what Jesus is saying. However, they will lose their witness to a dying world that needs the love of God.

As Paul says in Philippians 1:21, God doesn't just want to be "a part" of our lives, He wants to be our very life itself.

Prophecy is not the study of things to come: prophecy is looking at God's total plan from beginning to end.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

I've come to the conclusion that it's more important that I have the right attitude than that I have the right answers. If my answers are wrong, God can change them in a moment by the revelation of His truth. But often times it takes a whole lifetime to change an attitude. Better that we have the right attitude and the wrong answers, than the right answers and the wrong attitude.

Grace and peace are called the Siamese twins of the New Testament because they're always coupled together. This is the proper order of the two words, for you can't have the peace of God until you've first experienced His grace.

So you can't look at church history to find the model for the church, just like you can't look at the history of mankind and find God's divine intention for man.

God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, has been sent by the Son to indwell you so that you might be empowered to be conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Such is the marvelous gift that God has freely bestowed upon you and me. We will never receive a better gift. Other gifts may thrill us, delight us, even astonish us. But no other gift will ever supersede this gift - because the gift is God Himself.

Faith is the key to a successful Christian life. It enables you to reach out and accept the gift of salvation. And it is faith that takes you by the hand and walks you from one level of spiritual maturity to another. That is why the Word of God says, "Without faith it is impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6).

Long before Abraham's servant traveled to Mesopotamia, God had appointed Rebekah to be the bride of Isaac. "The angel of the LORD will direct you," Abraham told the servant. "He'll lead you to the one.