Quotes About God

Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it? Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come? (Lamentations 3:37-38)

person who fellowships with God must know that there is a God, that God is a Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and not Allah, or Buddha, his neighbor's cat, or the tree in his backyard.

If, as Paul says, "the church of the living God [is] the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15), then no standard of truth exists outside of Christianity, and it is our responsibility to be "the pillar and foundation of the truth" in a society that is hostile to the truth of God.

when it comes to salvation, no one under the dominion of sin can simply "decide" to be free from it unless God causes him to be free, nor would the person wish to be free from sin before this occurs.

God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.

God hates both the reprobate and his evil deeds, precisely because a person is the sum of his beliefs, thoughts, and actions.

It is right for man to submit to God and obey his commands (Ecclesiastes 12:13).

3:6). James is not talking about metaphysics, and he is not trying to identify the tempter. He wishes to make us take responsibility and confront temptation. This is not accomplished by blaming God's sovereignty. The

Spiritual growth does not come through your fleshly efforts, but it comes from an act of God giving life to us by means of his word.

2 Timothy 2:15 says, "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1).

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

the Bible is a book, but it is not like any other book. It is God's mind, God's word, God's voice, and therefore it possesses supreme value and ultimate authority.

Christianity teaches us about a God who commands humanity to procreate, and about an afterlife and a final judgment.

The wrath of God is just as much a divine attribute as his love; therefore, to have a proper understanding of God, we must know and embrace the doctrine of the wrath of God.

To begin, any human government should be established "by God's authority, for God's glory," and not "by the people, for the people." This is not to overturn the foundation of American government or the philosophy of democracy.

The Bible, or Scripture, is the ultimate authority and first principle of the Christian system, and it is the source of our knowledge about God and the things of God. Therefore, it is appropriate to begin the study of theology by considering the attributes of Scripture.

Since repentance is a turning of the mind from sin and toward God, the first sign of repentance is one's perception of his true condition,

Scripture tells us that God does punish sinners with both natural and "man-made" disasters, from the everyday mishaps and inconveniences to things like floods, earthquakes, plagues, famines, blizzards, and so on. All these things occur by God's sovereign decree and power.

To speak plainly, God kills these people because they are sinners and they deserve to die, and the time is ripe to punish them. Is not this the scriptural teaching?

Those who claim to be Christians but who scorn doctrinal studies do not truly love God, even though they would like to think that they love him. But to love God by our own definition and on our own terms is not to regard him as God, and thus not to love him at all.

One who comes to God in repentance relies on God's mercy alone. He says, "I can do nothing. I cannot undo what I have done. I cannot pay the debt that I have incurred. All I can do is to place my life in God's hands, and be at his mercy, and let him do whatever he wants with me." This attitude is already an effect of God's mercy at work. He changes the will of the sinner and grants him the gift of repentance.

as Paul puts it, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14).

Theological knowledge, or intellectual knowledge about God, is one of the most despised spiritual gifts. It is often regarded as unholy and unspiritual. However, Jesus says that to be God's friend means to have knowledge about him, about his being, his principles, and his plans and works.