Quotes About God

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

If God wanted us to play soccer, he would've given only 1 in 11 people arms.

Of course there is a God, just not like the one taught by the blind who lead the blind.

Listen! God is talking back!

Actually, no one knows much of anything at all, except: Everything is God, Thoughts become things, and Love is all.

Your physical body is the portal of your spirit, the God fragment that you are, through which you physically experience and shape the world you create.

The idea that life and consciousness was bestowed on us by a God whose brilliance accounts for the entire universe—but possesses the emotional maturity of a 12-year-old—is shockingly illogical.

I'm a survivor of life. I try to give the glory to God and appreciate what's happening to me.

our infatuation with the spectacular can blind us to the ways in which God moves in and through the ordinary and the common.

Part of our problem is that we confuse God's reliability with God's predictability. God is perfectly reliable. His character never changes. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His word never fails. He is love. God does not lie, and there is no hint of darkness in Him. But reliability does not equal predictability. To say that God is always good, faithful, or loving doesn't mean God always makes sense ahead of time.

Religion gives us forms and shapes for God to fit into, but He constantly proves to be bigger, wider, and deeper than our boxes. Just when we think we've figured out where God is going next, the wind blows somewhere else.

As a full-time paid religious person, I understand the desire to restrict God's work to only those who are formally recognized by our religious institutions. But He's too unpredictable for that.

is a mistake to market God as the answer to our insatiable desires when He was the one who made certain our desires were insatiable in the first place. God is relentless in His pursuit of humanity; He'll use anything and everything to bring

Throughout the Scriptures, the people of God continually succumb to the temptation to draw the boundary lines of faith more narrowly than what God has commanded. God's boundaries are simply broader and wider and higher and deeper than ours, so he calls his followers to be marked by the center--their faith in Jesus Christ--rather than by their boundaries.

If you passionately commit yourself to living out his purposes and advancing his kingdom, then God will make sure you live in his will. Trust him that if you are not going in the right direction, he will redirect you. But, I urge you, if you are paralyzed by the idea of the will of God, do something. Doing anything God-honoring is far better than doing nothing at all.

Actins, practices, and resources that are sometimes part of pursuing genuine faith are not bad things in themselves. In fact, I believe genuine faith leads to changes in outward behavior... But when the externals become substitutes for the real thing--an authentic relationship with God--they have fallen to the level of empty religion.

Rules and rituals are given to God's people to remind them what God is like and what he's called them to. God's commands are for our good, but they (by themselves) do not make us right with him.

God is not looking for 'more and more' obedience but 'deeper and deeper' obedience. True obedience is of the heart. Externals matter only to the degree that they reflect (and affect) the heart.

Jesus's summary of the whole law is simply this: love God and love each other. Focusing on externals will never make that happen. Religion can help us act lovingly, but it can't turn us into loving people. Only the power of God can do that.

The circle of those whom God loves has always been bigger than the circle the church has drawn. That is the scandal of grace.

Scripture teaches and assumes that all issues are spiritual issues and all disciplines are spiritual disciplines. This is the key to spiritual growth: the recognition that all aspects of my everyday life can be done for the glory of God and used by him to shape me more and more into the image of God.

This has always been the temptation of the people of God--to tame him. He increases mystery; we desire to remove it. He introduces paradox; we seek to solve it. We, like the Israelites before us, want a God who is understandable and predictable and safe.

Christ followers need not be threatened by truth outside the Bible, for all truth is a reflection of the Holy Creator God.

I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.