Quotes About God

God's best work occurs in the margins. If we have the courage to step into that wide-open space, God will meet us there.

Facing the edge is acknowledging whatever conflict, doubt, frustration, or anxiety that ate at my day and then naming it in a realized prayer, not a pushed-aside hassle. Facing the edge is gleaning the good while placing the not-so-good into God's hands.

I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?

I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.

My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is.

Gus, its never too late for redemption. The scars never run too deep, so deep that God is not there." "I should know this. I minister to scarred people everyday. It just feels impossible when the scars are your own, or are those of the person you wronged so fully" "It feels different when its you" "Why is it the good you do seems like a drop in the bucket but the evil spreads for miles & miles

Now I find that what life was making of me, what God was making of me, was not an arrow to trace a path through the sky, but the hub of a wheel. I am the intersection, I am the connection between them all, and the purpose I've been given isn't mine alone. It's for all of us to share. What I needed wasn't something I could take. What I needed was something I could give.

Jesus was always at the wheel, but he's not particularly cautious. In fact, he takes hairpin turns at seventy miles per hour if you want to know the truth of it. But as he is God, I've always figured he knows how to drive better than I do.

But watching you and {him}, Ket ... you've made me realize that I want to be open to how God leads. To whomever He might guide my heart, whether it be Duncan or some other man. Because watching you ... heal? Blossom in the shelter of {his} love?' She shook her head, her eyes filling with tears. 'That has been the best blessing of all since arriving here.

I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect

I believe it is always possible to draw closer to our Lord, whether it be during times of suffering or during times of celebration. It is all life, and all of life comes from God.

And isn't part of your life doing something with the gifts God has given you?

For the first time that day, I felt as if I could breathe. As if this, this was what God was leading me to. Waiting, abiding, resting. Enjoying what was rather than fearing what might be or resenting what had come before.

Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my joy, my crown. Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands, Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring

How much did we do in life that was the result of what others around us demanded? Rather than what God was calling us to do?

I believe it is always possible to draw closer to our Lord, whether it be during times of suffering or during times of celebration. It is all life, and all of life comes from God. (Tomas)

God is all about life, not death. Death is his enemy's domain.

When my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing... We must tie our identities to our unchanging, unflinching, unyielding, undeniably good, and unquestionably loving God.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered…

You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.

Except God don't create accidents. We only think there are accidents because we don't know what God has in mind.

feel that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading. But

The truth was, I yearned, in a soul-deep way, to be Sarra. To 'feel' that God was so very close, so very concerned with my particular life, so very ready to protect and to love. Always nearby. Always listening. Always leading.