Quotes About God

Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favor that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it.

The true God has never yet smiled upon a person for his charity or virtues, but only for the sake of Christ's merits.

First, self-love is already present in all people. Second, if God had wanted to command you to love yourself, he would have said, "You should love yourself and your neighbor as yourself." But he said instead, "Love your neighbor as yourself." In other words, "as yourself " means the way you already love yourself, without a commandment to do so.

The ultimate blessing that God can confer on a man is the possession of a good and pious wife.

For it is not possible to make the mercy of God large and good, unless a person first makes his miseries large and evil or recognizes them to be such. To make God's mercy great is not, as is commonly supposed, to think that God considers sins as small or that He does not punish them.

Let us then consider it certain and firmly established that the soul can do without anything except the Word of God and that where the Word of God is missing there is no help at all for the soul.

Reason fails to understand this, "for the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God." (I Cor. 2:14.) It therefore seeks righteousness in externals. However, we learn from the Word of God that there is nothing under the sun that can make us righteous before God and a new creature except Christ Jesus.

God doesn't test us because he enjoys it. He tests us to find out whether we love him above all things.

Therefore the whole meaning is that he who by the grace of God believes suffers persecution either from the world or from the flesh.

You are commanded to get angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of your office and of God; you must not confuse the two, your person and your office.

Ask God to work faith in you; otherwise you will remain eternally without faith, no matter what you try to do or fabricate.

The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.

If we don't use the resources available to us but instead want other resources we don't have, then we're testing God. This is what Satan wanted Christ to do.

I am bound by conscience and the word of God. Therefore I can and will recant nothing, because to act against one's conscience is neither safe nor salutary. Here I stad. I can do no ether. So help me God.

Obviously Moses indicates by this comment that the workers of the Law would be precisely the people who do not keep the Commandments of God, for he is certain that this grace is not given to all.

Therefore we are taught here that true vengeance is carried out, not by our passion but by God's command and on account of God. We are only the instruments of the avenging God, and we arrogate nothing of the vengeance to ourselves, as you see here.

Note: God came into the world in order to cast down the demons from divine honors. And now man arrogates the same titles to himself, namely, to boast of good and righteousness, which belong to God alone. But this, too, He will at last, at His Second Coming, cast down.]

In the same way, people who sleep when they should be working are testing God. Because God promised to take care of them, they assume that God will find a way. But in Proverbs, God told them to work: "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth" (Proverbs 10:4).

When God's judgment is avoided, God also flees, but when it is received, He, too, becomes near. For "in trouble You have enlarged for me" (Ps. 4:1), and "a Help in the troubles that have come upon us" (Ps. 46:1). And Ps. 9:9, "A Helper in due time in tribulation." And there is no lie in this, but it becomes a lie, if you flee from God's judgment.

But it is an insight of faith to know and to see that good works, self-glory, and holy life do not do it, but only God's kindness.

I cannot bear with laws for the interpretation of the word of God, since the word of God, which teaches liberty in all other things, ought not to be bound. Saving these two things, there is nothing which I am not able, and most heartily willing, to do or to suffer. I hate contention; I will challenge no one; in return I wish not to be challenged; but, being challenged, I will not be dumb in the cause of Christ my Master.

The psalm speaks of both, namely, that one must never under any circumstances trust either in temporal things of any kind or in one's own merits; that is to say, one must trust neither in temporal nor in spiritual goods, but through temporal and spiritual things in God alone.

For this is the judgment of God: "He hath cast down the mighty from their seat, and hath exalted the humble.

But whoever wants to call upon God, regardless of where he may be in the world, must turn His face heavenward to Christ and thus come to God through Christ, the real and true temple. For Christ is the proper mercy seat (Rom 3:25), with whom sheer mercy, love, and kindness are found. But whoever seeks God apart from Christ will find the God described by Moses as 'a devouring fire' (Deut. 4:24).