Quotes About God

If I was religious, I'd say it was God. And as God is probably someone we can't see or comprehend then He – or She – or whichever pronoun God is – becomes an image of someone good we have known in our lives.

This, it seemed, was power. The power of fame. Like those pop icons she had seen on social media, who could say a single word and get a million likes and shares. Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort.

Total fame was when you reached the point where looking like a hero, or genius, or god, required minimal effort.

On the cross, God subverted everything we intuitively understand about power … For many of us, coming to terms with the thought that great blessings come through great suffering is a tough pill to swallow.

Our lives, as short as they may be, are a test. And one of the biggest tests we can endure is how we respond to those moments when we don't feel the presence of God in our lives. I believe deeply that one of God's greatest gifts is to teach us there is a purpose behind every single one of our trials or problems. Treat them as a gift, an opportunity to move forward and draw closer to God. Problems often times compel us to look to God and count on him, rather than ourselves.

Some would look at Emily's life and think that a child born with Down's syndrome has little hope for a meaningful life. Throw in the diagnosis of leukemia and that little hope turns into no hope whatsoever. I disagree. Emily's life, with all its imperfections, had great meaning. Because of how many people she touched, I realize that we are far more than what we can accomplish. We are the very thumbprints of God.

As a writer of worship songs, I have a hunger to write deep songs of passionate reverence to God. Yet I'm aware I cannot sing before I have seen. All worship is a response to a revelation--it's only as we breathe in more of the wonders of God that we can breathe out a fuller response to Him....the key to a life of passionate and powerful worship comes from seeing God.

Who on Earth are we that the awesome King of all eternity would spare a thought in our direction? Why would the God of yesterday, today, and forever- the One who was, is, and is to come- choose to bestow His loving attention upon the likes of us? The God of unspeakable glory is speaking to us in unmistakable words of love and grace.

La explicación es que el Dios del Nuevo Testamento es una persona, un padre, a quien le importamos.

Words originated, as did the concept of God, with our species.

To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.

The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.

He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Hadn't Jefferson written, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God?" Hadn't he also written, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants?

Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God's sword would smite him? Who is this woman

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.

When the sins of a people reach up to heaven, the wrath of God will reach down to the earth.

Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.

When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.

Jesus Christ in his person is God manifest in the flesh, he is light of light, the true Shechinah.

The glory of God is his own end, and it should be ours in all that we do.

the Pharisees, and the other self-justifying Jews, who though that they needed no repentance, and that therefore God should abundantly rejoice in them, and make his boast of them, as those that were most his honour; but Christ tells them that it was quite otherwise, that God was more praised in, and pleased with, the penitent broken heart of one of those despised, envied sinners, than all the long prayers which the scribes and Pharisees made, who could not see any thing amiss in themselves. Nay

The wits or wills of men, their inventions or their injunctions, cannot make that to be sin which the law of God has not made to be so.