Quotes About God

the tame 'God' they've made up in their heads based on what they want God to be like. They keep the real God out of their consciousness. If they did become conscious of him, in all his holiness and power, they would hate him."4 GREG F

of praise in the faces around you. When you fall short of others' expectations, you replay your failures again and again. On your better days, your successes almost seem to balance your screwups. On your darker days, you suspect that your shortcomings have forever skewed everyone's opinion of you — even God's — and you wonder what it will take to regain God's good

that's not based on anything we have done, can do, or might do.17 It's not even a reward that God hands out to those who happen to choose him (Romans 9:16). It's God's wonderful acceptance of us not because we have

Christianity is not a religion; it is the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The gospel, however — the good news of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ — is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance."14 ROBERT FARRAR CAPON

The grace of the sovereign God has never waited for us to make the first move. Forbidden fruit was still fresh on our first parents' lips when God stepped into the Garden of Eden and lavished undeserved favor on them. At the very moment when Adam and Eve deserved death that never ends, God clothed them with the skin of a beast and promised them a Son whose triumph would grind the serpent's skull into the ground (Genesis 3:15, 21).

Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve, and mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.

To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!' They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.

For those who wondered how an incarnated God would behave as a child, Smith added three verses explaining that "Jesus … served under his father, and he spake not as other men, neither could he be taught; for he needed not that any man should teach him.

About the same time, Whitmer began transcribing Smith's revelations into a bound volume entitled "A Book of Commandments and Revelations of the Lord Given to Joseph the Seer and Others by the Inspiration of God and Gift and Power of the Holy Ghost Which Beareth Re[c]ord of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost Which Is One God Infinite and Eternal World without End Amen.

Cowdery had been called to preach the gospel to the Lamanites and "rear up a pillar as a witness where the Temple of God shall be built, in the glorious New-Jerusalem.

In other words, since all good comes from God, and the Book of Mormon tries to persuade humankind to do and be good—be righteous and believe in Christ—it is therefore true and inspired even if, in the final analysis, it is not historical.

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

In your strength I can crush an army; with my God I can scale any wall. He makes me as surefooted as a deer, leading me safely along the mountain heights. —2 Samuel 22:30, 34

Child," she said, not taking her gaze from the window, "God ain't waiting at no finish line. No, Jesus is running with you, caring more about the steps on the way than the big finish. Can't nobody impress God. Just look at what he created out there!

For your unfailing love is as high as the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. —Psalm 57:10

Mom says good health is like buying an appliance at a garage sale. You do the best you can to make sure it's in good shape and then leave the rest to God.

Hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts.

He glanced at his admiral, that man so far removed from his own lowly rank that he might have been a god, and found Sir Graham smiling at him. The admiral winked. "Cheer up, Mr. Marshall, I have not even begun to work you yet!

Maeve, open up!" "Gray, darling? Is that you?" "For God's sake, Maeve, open the goddamned door, now!" "Now Gray, that's no way to talk to royalty." He pounded savagely against the door, nearly holing the elegant wood. "Jesus, Maeve, OPEN THE GODDAMNED DOOR!

As my grandmother always said, there was only one perfect person to ever walk this earth, and God took him back.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,The Devil always builds a chapel there;And 'twill be found, upon examination,The latter has the largest congregation.

His shelter, as it turned out, burned down in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis the next year, leading Leo Szilard to comment that this proved not only that there was a God but that He had a sense of humor.

Plants, animals, men, angels, then God. Difference between men and angels is that men are stuck in a body. They feel pain, hunger, and thirst...But me and you, we don't have to feel them things...We can turn off the human condition. So maybe we're closer to the angels, you know? Creatures of the mind. A higher morality. The machine takes us deeper into our souls. That far inside, we're capable of anything. Way beyond right or wrong.

The only enduring motive for prayer is that our never-changing God is worthy to be sought. This