Quotes About God

don't always feel like being nice and pleasant, but I can choose to in order to honor God.

It is impossible to grasp the fullness of God without grasping the fullness of the love of Christ.

I have to attach my happy to the only eternal stability there is and remain there. Oh, the prayers i have prayed over and over for God to help me, stabilize me, and tie my happiness to Him.

Eve was saturated in the object of her desire. Jesus was saturated in God's truth.

God is always at work. He is a present, loving Father, aware of our deepest hurts and our even deeper needs.

Cravings. Are they a curse or a blessing? The answer to that depends on what we're craving. And what we're craving will always depend on whatever we're consuming . . . the object of our desire or God and His truth.

And yet what we call mundane is, in some very important ways, significant in God's school of preparation.

The more saturated we are with God's truth, the more powerfully resistant we become.

In light of God's deep affection, we no longer have to live in fear of rejection. The

It's in those little breaks in our companionship with God where confusion sets in about what we're really supposed to do. (11) Isaiah 30:21 ref

That's how God created us -- with a longing to be filled. It's a longing God instilled to draw us into deep intimacy with Him.

Being ruled by anything other than God is something God takes quite seriously. And so should I. I don't want to live as an enemy to the cross of Christ. In other words, I don't want to live resistant to the power Christ's death and resurrection provides for me just because I can't walk away from my unhealthy cravings.

Just that morning I'd been praying and asking God to show Himself to me. I asked the God of the universe to intersect my life with His revelation, then got up from my prayers and forgot to look. Forgot to seek Him. Forgot to keep my heart in tune with His voice and His invitation. All because of the chaotic rush of my day.

Obviously, the core of Eve's temptation was she wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil. But we can't ignore the fact that the serpent used food as a tool in the process. If the very downfall of humanity was caused when Eve surrendered to a temptation to eat something she wasn't supposed to eat, I do think our struggles with food are important to God.

God is good at being God. I don't have to figure my present circumstances out. I don't have to fill the silence left behind in another person's absence. I don't have to know all the whys and what-ifs. All I have to do is trust.

Each day God can be the perfect portion of everything we need -- every longing we have, every desperate desire our souls cry out for. God will be our portion.

TO HONOR GOD COMPLETELY, you need enough faith to leave with Him. Leave? Leave and go where, you ask? Leave the way you've always done life and start doing things differently with God. Leave the attitude, leave the stubborn pride, leave the right to be right, leave the control, and biggest of all, leave the unbelief.

We cannot control our outcomes. We cannot formulate how the promises of God will actually take shape. And we will never be able to demand any of the healing from all the hurt to hurry up.

Taking thoughts captive and being transformed by thinking new ways isn't some New Age form of mind control. It's biblical and it's fitting with how God wired our brains.

The piercing angst of disappointment in everything on this side of eternity creates a discontent with this world and pushes us to long for God Himself—and for the place where we will finally walk in the garden with Him again.

God made us to crave so we'd always desire more of Him.

Don't allow this thief to weaken, expose, or make you vulnerable. Don't compromise. Refuse to accept less than the peace and abundant life God has promised you.

When a woman begins to walk in faith toward God, He will give the dream.

Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder. Write them deep within your heart. Then you will find favor with both God and people, and you will earn a good reputation. (vv. 3 – 4 NLT)