Quotes About God

God will own his own people, though ever so poor and despicable, and will find a time to plead their cause.

2.) A severe penalty: The Lord will not hold him guiltless; magistrates, who punish other offences, may not think themselves concerned to take notice of this, because it does not immediately offer injury either to private property or the public peace; but God, who is jealous for his honour, will not thus connive at it.

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.

Men of business ought to be devout men, and not to think that business will excuse them from that which is every man's great business – to keep up communion with God.

It is better to live poorly on the fruits of God's goodness, than live plentifully on the products of our own sin.

The power of men's laws may bind a man to good behavior, but it is only the power of God's grace that will renew a right spirit within him (Ps. 51:10). It is this that

Guilt and corruption are our two great discouragements when we stand before God. By the guilt of the sins committed by us we have become obnoxious to the justice of God; by the power of the sin that dwells in us we have become odious to the holiness of God.

Those that would find mercy with men must seek it of God, who has all hearts in his hands, and turns them as he pleases.

None was more quarrelled with by men, than he that came to take up the great quarrel between God and man.

What is prayer, but the ascent of the soul to God?

The covenants God makes he establishes; they are made as firm as the power and truth of God can make them.

Note, Those that depart from God cannot find rest any where else. After Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, he never rested. Those that shut themselves out of heaven abandon themselves to a perpetual trembling. "Return therefore to thy rest, O my soul, to thy rest in God; else thou art for ever restless.

Those whom God employs to speak for him ought to depend upon him for instructions, and it shall be given them what they shall speak

If God be not sanctified and glorified by us, he will be sanctified and glorified upon us.

When God corrects us or ours for sin, it is our duty to be silent under the correction

Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.

Envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more offensive to God, nor more injurious to our neighbour and ourselves.

The wisdom of God is to be observed in the gradual advances of the church's interests.

No good can be expected from a righteous and holy God to sinful creatures, but by his mediation.

Where God sets up the tabernacle of his ordinances he will himself dwell.

The saints, who are living sacrifices to God, must have salt in themselves, for every sacrifice must be salted with salt (Mark 9:49

The Lord is for the body, and it is not only folly, but sin against God, to prejudice our health for the pleasing of our appetite.

Communion with God and serviceableness to his church are things that, above any other, put true honour upon men.

The challenge life presents to each of us is to become truly ourselves--not the self we have imagined or fantasized about, not the self that our friends want us to be, not the self our ego would have us be, but the self God has ordained us to be from before we were in our mother's womb.