Quotes About God

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it.

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures, and engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not unceasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt.

Next to the word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world. It controls our hearts, minds and spirits. A person who does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs!

How can a reason which hates God be called sound?

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

If we do not love God and His Word what difference does it make if we love anything at all?

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

He who believes God, recognizes Him as true and faithful, and himself as a liar; for he mistrusts his own thinking as false, and trusts the Word of God as being true, though it absolutely contradicts his own reasoning.

The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle, but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife that you may learn to bear these troubles. Those who have no love for children are... unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessing of God, the creator and author of marriage.

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.