Quotes About God

Forgiveness is God's command.

Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

A mighty fortress is our God,A bulwark never failing.Our helper He amid the floodOf mortal ills prevailing.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

Christ will remain a priest and king though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

Pray, and let God worry.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and work flow.

We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

God does not need our good works, but our neighbor does.

That is what Reason can neither grasp nor endure, and what has offended all these men of outstanding talent who have been so received for so many centuries. Here they demand that God should act according to human justice, and do what seems right to them or else cease to be God.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.