Quotes About God

That giant has fallen, my friends. God is able. He is always able. Our invitation is to set him before us always. To not take our eyes off him. With faith we can say our hearts are glad, and our tongues rejoice, and our bodies will rest secure.

Has God forgotten all I have done for him?

Yes, Lewis concludes, God may at times treat us harshly, but he has never treated us with contempt.

The great significance of the altar was and always has been that it was the place where God and the worshiper met.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state.

The Bible does not urge moral improvement as an end in itself, but moral improvement in relation to God, for God's sake, and with a view to the service of God.

True liberty consists exactly in self-determination in the direction of holiness. Man is never more free than when he moves consciously in the direction of God.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author.

It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.

According to Scripture the essence of man consists in this, that he is the image of God. As such he is distinguished from all other creatures and stands supreme as the head and crown of the entire creation.

In Scripture the idea of holiness is applied first of all to God. It denotes primarily that God is absolutely distinct from the creature, is exalted far above it in heavenly majesty, and is therefore the unapproachable One.

Prayer is the most important part of the thankfulness God requires of us.

True saving faith is a faith that has its seat in the heart and is rooted in the regenerate life. The seed of the faith is implanted by God in the heart in regeneration, and it is only after God has implanted this seed in the heart that man can actively exercise faith.

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

Man ceased to recognize the knowledge of God as something that was given in Scripture, and began to pride himself on being a seeker after God. In course of time it became rather common to speak of man's discovering God, as if man ever discovered Him; and every discovery that was made in the process was dignified with the name of "revelation.

Justification is a judicial act of God, in which He declares, on the basis of the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that all the claims of the law are satisfied with respect to the sinner.

This general revelation never has been exclusively natural, but always contained an admixture of the supernatural. Even before the fall God revealed Himself to man supernaturally in the covenant of works. And in the course of the history of revelation God frequently revealed Himself in a supernatural way outside of the sphere of special revelation, Gen. 20:3 ff.; 40: 5 ff ; 41:1 ff.; Judg. 7:13; Dan. 2:1 ff.

There is a constant coming of God to man in theophany, prophecy, and miracle, and this coming reaches its highest point in the incarnation of the Son of God and in the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

Religion is concerned with man's relation to God, and man has no right to determine the nature of this relation. It is God's prerogative to specify how man should be related to Him, and He does this in His divine Word.

To the glorious message of redemption there is an answering faith on the part of man, consisting in a childlike trust in Jesus Christ, and becoming at the same time a fountain of love to God and His service.

Sin separates man from God, and that means death, for it is only in communion with the living God that man can truly live.

But it is more in harmony with Scripture to say that the good pleasure of God to save sinners by a substitutionary atonement was founded in the love and justice of God.

claimed that God by virtue of His absolute power

that perfection of God whereby He applies His knowledge to the attainment of His ends in a way which glorifies Him most.