Quotes About God

As a result, we don't see anything wrong with aiming more at personal gratification than at God's glory in the plans and choices we make, in some part because we believe that our earthly happiness is the primary way God's glory is revealed.

Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them.

Contentment does not lie around the next corner. It is not waiting for us on the other side of today's difficulty, nor is it lost with yesterday. Contentment is where God is, and God is with us today.

Our problem really isn't that we need something we don't have; our problem is that we don't find God to be enough for us.

Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

God created human beings with a capacity for loneliness so that we would yearn for and find our all in him.

All forms of sinful self-indulgence spring from an ungrateful heart. If we live to gratify ourselves with comfort or pleasure of whatever kind, it's because we believe that God is not enough for us. In some hidden recess of our heart, we judge him insufficient when he fails to meet our personal expectations of what we want and think we deserve.

As we keep in step with the Spirit, our thinking changes, and the craving to self-indulge begins to die. And our hearts are humbled, which enables us to see God for who he is and everything we have as a gift. Gratitude to God - not just words of thanks but a heart-deep belief - makes self-indulgence meaningless.

Offering thanks to God, no matter what is going on in our lives, is a way of acknowledging that he knows exactly what he is doing and that we can trust him.

The only way we will learn to trust God is by getting to know God.

Quit looking at your inability. Nothing is impossible with God, and you will find a clear path ahead if you look at him instead.

The only thing big enough to conquer this kind of fear is God, who rules every detail of every day of your life. Rest assured that nothing can touch you apart from your heavenly Father's permission. Out of his love for you, he is well able to prevent the thing you are so afraid of, and out of that same love he might allow it. Either way, whatever happens, he only allows what is going to work for your eternal happiness and blessing and his glory.

God wants more than our symptom relief. He desires to get at the core of what underlies our fears, which, at the deepest level, have to do with our relationship to him.

God often acts contrary to how we think a good God should act. The answer we think we need seems so logical and clear to our way of thinking, yet God does not provide it. That is where faith comes in. Real faith isn't the belief that God will do a particular thing; real faith is the conviction that God is good, no matter what he does and however he chooses to answer our prayers.

We care much less about long-term results and the glory of God than we do about simply feeling better.

We will never know lasting joy in the Lord if we seek to understand him by what goes on in the world or by our circumstances. The only way to joy is to interpret our circumstances by God's Word rather than to judge God by our circumstances (p. 40).

We don't need ten tips to a better spiritual life. What we need is to put God out front in our thoughts, priorities, time, and activities. If we allow his Word to govern us, we will see that he delights to show us "the path of life" and the path for our life (p. 45).

How can we help what we feel? We just can't muster up joyful feelings; that's true. But we can rejoice, which sooner or later leads to joyful feelings. Rejoicing is not a feeling. It is joy in action. It is the humble willingness to offer God praise and thanks in all things, regardless of how we feel at the moment (p. 98).

The joy of trials is rarely found in the circumstances of our difficulties. Rather, it is found when we stop fighting against what God is doing and seek his purposes and priorities, which always without exception are designed for our welfare. Whatever the difficulty—even one brought about by our sin—we can leave the outcome in God's hands (p. 76).

God wants us to enjoy the peace that comes from a mind set on him and on his purposes rather than on how we feel. A Christ-focused life is a stable life, because the joy that comes along with it doesn't hinge, as do our human emotions, on daily ups and downs.

God isn't interested in helping us with our self-improvement program; he is interested in our holiness.

Dios hizo las nalgas para coger golpes.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

If I could conceive it possible that this universe were governed by a wisdom no greater than I am able to comprehend, I should not be able to believe in a God of infinite wisdom; for finite wisdom cannot comprehend infinite wisdom.