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Quotes About God

Every living thing which God creates requires food. The life that God imparts needs sustaining and nourishing. It is so with animal and vegetable life,—with birds, beasts, fishes, reptiles, insects, and plants. It is equally so with spiritual life. When the Holy Ghost raises a man from the death of sin and makes him a new creature in Christ Jesus, the new principle in that man's heart requires food, and the only food which will sustain it is the Word of God.
~ J.C. Ryle
He believed that God was all merciful. Reason and sense might hint that a more pleasant manner of deliverance might be found, that some compromise might be effected, and many hardships be avoided. But faith told Moses that God was love, and would not give His people one drop of bitterness beyond what was absolutely needed.
~ J.C. Ryle
Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils.--They were the school of God, in which He trains the children of grace for glory--the medicines which are needful to purify our corrupt wills--the furnace which must burn away our dross--the knife which must cut the ties that bind us to the world.
~ J.C. Ryle
Justification is the act of God about us and is not easily discerned by others. Sanctification is the work of God within us and cannot be hid
~ J.C. Ryle
make nothing of God's authority. God threatens, but they despise His threatenings. They make nothing of dishonoring God. They care not how much their behavior is to His
~ J.C. Ryle
religious feelings are worse than worthless if they are not accompanied by practice. Mere emotional excitement, without completely breaking off from sin, is not the repentance that God approves.
~ J.C. Ryle
The great debt with God must be settled. The King must be upon His throne. Then, and not until then, will there be peace within. Without repentance, there cannot be true happiness. We must repent if we want to be happy.
~ J.C. Ryle
7. En séptimo y último lugar, ¿es sabio enseñar a los creyentes que no piensen tanto en luchar y esforzarse contra el pecado, sino que más bien se "sometan a Dios" y sean pasivos en las manos de Cristo? ¿Coincide esto con lo que afirma la Palabra de Dios? Lo dudo. Es claro que la enseñanza de "someterse a Dios" es algo a lo que Dios
~ J.C. Ryle
la elección de la salvación del hombre es la obra especial de Dios, el Padre, que la expiación, mediación e intercesión, son la obra especial de Dios, el Hijo y que la santificación es la obra especial de Dios, el Espíritu Santo.
~ J.C. Ryle
Out of Christ, God is a consuming fire. In Christ, He is a reconciled Father. Without Christ, the strictest moralist may well tremble, as he looks forward to his end. Through Christ, the chief of sinners may approach God with confidence, and feel perfect peace.
~ J.C. Ryle
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven. It is to be on the road to hell. Now can you wonder that I ask the question, Do you pray?
~ J.C. Ryle
God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
~ Unknown
Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.
~ Unknown
Why are so many parsons like this? Must one excuse their defective sensibility towards their fellows because they are engrossed with God?
~ Unknown
While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the kingdom of God—the direct availability of God himself and His rule—is now available to anyone who will enter it through trust in Jesus.
~ J.P. Moreland
The gospel of the kingdom is an invitation to a different reality, a different way of living. The kingdom is a new way of relating as people. Where ordinary human life is based on competitiveness and defensiveness, domination and subjugation, treachery and violence, the kingdom is based on the self-giving love of God.
~ J.P. Moreland
As our Savior has said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37). To do this, we cannot neglect the soulful development of a Christian mind.
~ J.P. Moreland
The spiritually mature person is a wise person. And a wise person has the savvy and skill necessary to lead an exemplary life and to address the issues of the day in a responsible, attractive way that brings honor to God.
~ J.P. Moreland
English professor Carolyn Kane wrote an article in Newsweek about the loss of thinking in American culture generally. After putting her finger squarely on the problem, Kane identified her solution in front of both God and the Newsweek readership: "But how can we revive interest in the art of thinking? The best place to start would be in homes and churches of our land.
~ J.P. Moreland
while few would actually put it in these terms, faith is now understood as a blind act of will, a decision to believe something that is either independent of reason or that is a simple choice to believe while ignoring the paltry lack of evidence for what is believed. By contrast with this modern misunderstanding, biblically, faith is a power or skill to act in accordance with the nature of the kingdom of God, a trust in what we have reason to believe is true.
~ J.P. Moreland
We need not get distracted by the seeming defeat or troubles of our daily lives ("what is seen"), because this affliction is actually being used by God to transform our character (2 Corinthians 3:18) so we can become the kind of citizens who will flourish in his future kingdom ("what is not seen").
~ J.P. Moreland
I'd want to say so many things. But my main exhortation would be this: Don't neglect your critical faculties. Remember that God is a rational God, who has made us in His own image. God invites and expects us to explore His double revelation, in nature and Scripture, with the minds He has given us, and to go on in the development of a Christian mind to apply His marvelous revealed truth to every aspect of the modern and post-modern world.
~ J.P. Moreland
Furthermore, our initial perception of God is largely formed by our interaction with our parents and other early caregivers. As children, to be safe, we developed ways of coping with our imperfect parents. And due to these varied challenging experiences in our childhood, perhaps some of us may wonder how safe God really is.
~ J.P. Moreland
Our Lord is a God of reason as well as of revelation.
~ J.P. Moreland