Quotes About God

If God exists, maybe He can simultaneously feel the pain and pleasure of every sentient being. But for us mortals, empathy really is a spotlight. It's a spotlight that has a narrow focus, one that shines most brightly on those we love and gets dim for those who are strange or different or frightening.

One of our slogans is this: "Building crosscultural relationships is easier if we accept the fact that 40 percent of the time we will have no idea what's going on." In these situations, however, our reliance on God and our dependence on our global colleagues increases, creating greater opportunities for us to be on the receiving end of their care.

The world we live in includes two Great Divides. Economically, the rich-poor divide calls us to lives of generosity. Theologically, the ways that we understand God and faith calls us to a globally expanded view of God.

Our conversation revealed the differences between their paradigm and mine. They were sent by a U.S.-based ministry that defined "gospel-preaching churches" as non-Pentecostal and noncharismatic, male-led, emotionally quiet, hymn-singing and (implicitly) led by white missionaries. My paradigm was more along the lines of "go where God is going.

Those of us who want to interact globally will have to suspend some of our theological judgments and listen to how someone from another land is hearing the Scriptures, experiencing the power of God or applying the Bible to daily life.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Saint John of the Cross gave the following advice: "Enter into your heart and labour in the presence of God who is always present there to help you. Fix your loving attention upon Him without any desire to feel or hear anything of God.

Of what use is unrealized divinity to anyone? If he is unconscious of his higher self, is a man any better off? The link of being linked with God potentially is not enough. It must also be personally discovered, felt, known, and demonstrated in living activity.

In the early stages of enlightenment, the aspirant is overwhelmed by his discovery that God is within himself. It stirs his intensest feelings and excites his deepest thoughts. But, though he does not know it, those very feelings and thoughts still form part of his ego, albeit the highest part. So he still separates his being into two—self and Overself. Only in the later stages does he find that God not only is within himself but is himself.

Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions is to be brought to an end by entering the deepest degree of contemplation. The same teaching is given in the Bhagavad Gita. "As the wick of an oil lamp placed in a wind-free spot is flickerless, so is the yogi of mastered mind who practises union with the God-Self.

John the Baptist Was indeed a Messenger of God Matthew 11:11-14 bears witness to John the Baptist. Let

These Words of Jesus speaks the Truth that God put John the Baptist here as the representative of all of humankind, and also had him baptize Jesus. As Jesus was bearing witness of John the Baptist He said, "Why did you go out into the wilderness?

When Jesus walked toward John the Baptist the day after He was baptized, John the Baptist bore witness by saying to the people, "Please take a look at Him. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. You people, take a look at Him! He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world." Because he had passed-on all the sins of humanity onto Jesus by the baptism, he was able to bear witness personally to the fact that Jesus was the Savior.

God. Therefore, it is very important that we the believers of the gospel of the water and the Spirit must understand the sacrificial system of the Old Testament well, and through this reach an even deeper understanding of

John the Baptist who was described by Jesus like this bore witness to Jesus also by confirming, "Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!"(John 1:29) It was John the Baptist who bore witness of Jesus by confirming, "Look! Jesus took away all the sins of the world, and He is none other than the Son of God;

As someone special who was born from the house of Aaron the High Priest by the providence of God, John

Nevertheless, this Zacharias wife became pregnant and started to show just as God had said. Six months after that, the Virgin Mary also started to show.

Only in this form could the prophecies of the Old Testament be fulfilled, and it becomes possible for us to believe in God in the proper way. Because the High Priesthood is something set eternally by God, the sins of the world had to be passed-on through the baptism given to Jesus

So we see according to God's command, almond flowers blossomed on Aaron's staff representing the tribe of Levi amongst the twelve tribes who had placed their staffs; through this it proved to them that the priesthood was given to the house of Aaron by God (Numbers 17:1-10). When Aaron died at the age of 123

John the Baptist carried out the priesthood of passing-on the sins of humankind onto Jesus, who was sacrificial Lamb of God.

Because God always used a representative priest to pass-on the sins of people onto a sacrificial lamb, He had to send John the Baptist. Therefore

by having faith that Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb God had sent to save them from all their sins.

If you were to resist this incredible blessing, it would be like refusing all the plans of God in its entirety, and you would have by doing this become a wicked child, stubbornly refusing the Truth with your own mind.

It was all God's plan, and is befitting to the Wise.