Quotes About God

O my God, Ludovici thought. Love and rebellion. A potent mixture. Enough to blind him to common sense.

This love your minstrels sing of, must it always be a knight and a lady? Who made this law? Was it God? Then God is a trickster, for there is no one else will do for me.

God was not say, 'I'm giving you these commands, and by keeping them you may become my people.' He was saying, 'I'm giving you these commands because you are my people.' The law tells us how people who belong to God ought to live.

Daniel studied her face. Have you ever thanked God for giving you the advantages he has? Advantages? All those things I've already mentioned. Your tall and strong, loyal and brave, kind and loving. You stand out in a crowd and your a leader. He wouldn't trust those qualities with just anyone. He must love you a great deal.

You talk of being a believer, but you can't seem to trust anyone, not even God. You cling to your wealth as your security and carry the baggage of being unworthy, even though God loves you and has forgiven you. You should have listened a little closer to that sermon in church a couple of weeks back.

God isn't like a genie in a bottle who will do whatever we ask. Prayer is about talking with God, getting to know him, learning to love the things he loves. He's preparing us to be fit citizens for the kingdom to come, and his goal isn't to give us everything we want in this world. Don't you want whatever God knows is best?

Enough of problems,' Anu said, lifting her teacup to her lips. 'We shall focus on God's goodness. Nothing good or bad happens to us but what it first passes through the Father's hand.

Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?' We can even deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christian or that we are following God. But when adversity comes, the true believer will still weather it standing, though he may go through a fire of doubt. This is God's mercy to us, to strengthen our faith and our hearts. Allow this adversity to bow your knee to God and accept his will.

Though she wouldn't say she would ever pray for adversity, she could see how God had used it in her life.

I'd trusted in my own strength about so many things. I realized God delights in using the weak and fearful.

Everything in this life can fail. I have to keep reminding myself that only God is faithful and never fails us. Things are bleak, life is unfair, but this isn't over yet. We will see God work.

Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. —Isaiah 40:28

She'd left God behind long ago, and she doubted he'd care to hear from her now that she was in the worst trouble of her life.

Being a Christian doesn't mean trouble never comes our way, Zach. It just means God is here, and He gives us the grace to get through the heartache.

God was in the business of bringing blessings out of unexpected circumstances, but Lucy didn't want this twist to her life. … but didn't God ask the seemingly impossible at times?

Look at the view from here. If we were down on the shore, we wouldn't be able to see how the two boats maneuver to avoid each other. We can see the lighthouse and the Dungeness Spit. From up here, we can see lots of things we couldn't if we were in the middle of the waves." She got where he was going. "Now that it's all over, we can see how God took care of us through this. He

Justice this side of heaven is a myth. It's not our job anyway. Real justice belongs to God.

God had been good to them all today. But He was good every day just, sometimes she noticed.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

One cannot say they have seen or know of God if they have not seen the grandest elements of The Cosmos with their own eyes.

The Cosmos itself is God, for it is alive, it is Grand and it is the origin of all energies.

You cannot know of the true God until you have witnessed the oblivions of The Cosmos face to face.

The biblical way to express God's love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law—see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ.

Coups will be taken lightly if we condone this Bill, without justice there is no peace. If you honourable chiefs agree that those involved in the coup be forgiven, it will prove that we support the wrong and will be at odds with the integrity of God.