Quotes About God

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

Real joy comes when we get the right desire met - the desire for God himself, for a life led by the Spirit, fulfilling not our material desires but our deepest need, which is to be in a close relationship with our Creator. That is the source of true blessing. The only source.

true blessings come not from stuff or from satisfying the self; they come from submitting one's self to God.

We are not suited for fear. We are suited for trust in God.

Man leaves only so that the presence of God can take his place. God

The normal Christian life is one of problems, but always remember that every problem has passed through the hand of a loving Father and carries with it, before it ever arrives, an express, intrinsic purpose. Those in the midst of affliction usually find the purpose hidden, but the experienced sufferer knows it will prove to be glorious. Problems are God's main tool for bringing us to the end of our own resources and into the deep experience of all His riches.

Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.

When we find ourselves in the throes of suffering and pain, we must refuse to play the what-if game. Ask instead, "What if God is greater than my current circumstances? If God is indeed working out a plan to bring himself greater glory, how should I react?" Then respond accordingly, confident that he can use our disappointment to deepen our faith and bring our lives into greater harmony with him.

In Christianity, God has promised to avenge attacks against His people. We trust the One who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay" (Romans 12:19 KJV)—but to the Muslim mind, this makes us look like cowards. In Islam, it's the opposite: the people are commanded to punish insults to the honor of Allah and Muhammad.

In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). The peace that Jesus brings is divine peace, the peace of God, the only peace worthy of the name. Divine peace is the only permanent peace. Divine peace is that kind of peace you feel inside even when the world is falling apart all around you.

But evidence is all around you." "The world is all around me. Some parts I understand, some I don't. Some the scientists do, some they don't. It exists. That only proves it exists." "I don't understand how you can look at the world and say there's no God." "And I don't know how you can look at the world and pretend you know there's a God and what he wants. So we're even.

As Tozer said in The Pursuit of God, "it is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes advantage of His inattention to grant an illicit mercy. God...is an Anglican, whereas Our Lady is of the True Faith; the two of Them have an uneasy relationship, unable to agree on anything, except that if They divorce, the Devil will leap gleefully into the breach.

I just wish," she said, "that this magnificent, stupendous God of yours could give a fuck.

A truly modern man, William Rackham is what might be called a superstitious atheist Christian; that is, he believes in a God who, while He may no longer be responsible for the sun rising, the saving of the Queen or the provision of daily bread, is still the prime suspect when anything goes wrong.

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad, as Sundays often are in Paris, especially when one doesn't believe in God.

Au métro Sèvres-Babylone, j'ai vu un graffiti étrange: "Dieu a voulu des inégalités, pas des injustices", disait l'inscription. Je me suis demandé qui était cette personne si bien informée des desseins de Dieu.

In all of human history there may never have been a mind as brilliant as Isaac Newton's—just think what an amazing, unheard-of intellectual effort it took to discover a single law that accounted for the fall of earthly bodies and the movement of the planets! Well, Newton believed in God.

For the first time in my life I'd started thinking about God, seriously imagining that there could be a kind of Creator of the universe observing everything I did, and my first reaction was uncomplicated, pure and simple fear.

He visto claramente a Dios En su Inexistencia; En su maravillosa nada He aprovechado mi oportunidad.

Als God werkelijk bestond, had hij weleens wat meer aanwijzingen omtrent zijn opvattingen mogen geven, God was een bijzonder slechte communicator, zo'n mate van amateurisme zou in een professionele omgeving nooit zijn geaccepteerd.

Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

In werkelijkheid bekommert God zich om ons, Hij denkt elk moment aan ons en geeft ons aanwijzingen, soms heel nauwkeurige. Die golven van liefde die in onze borst opwellen en ons de adem benemen, die ingevingen en extases, waar onze biologische natuur, onze eenvoudige primatenstatus geen verklaring voor kan bieden, zijn uitzonderlijk heldere tekenen.