Quotes About God

When you don't know your Bible well, you will tend to use it as an isolated collection of wisdom statements for daily living, and you will tend to look for the verse that best seems to fit the situation you are discussing. This method completely misses the genius of the Bible's grand redemptive themes that form the basis of the hope and courage of the brand-new way of living to which God has called us.

No, no vas a entender todo lo que enfrentas, y sí, la voluntad de Dios puede ser confusa en ocasiones, pero tu historia ha sido infundida con significado y propósito porque se ha incluido en la historia de la redención y la restauración de Dios.

Perhaps we commit vertical larceny much more than we realize. Perhaps we quest for personal glory more than we think. Perhaps we take credit for what only God can do more often than we think we do. Perhaps, in subtle idolatry, we give credit to places and things when it really belongs to God.

Peace and hope are never to be found in your efforts to figure out the future. God's secret will is called his secret will precisely because it is secret! No, real hope is found in living inside the implications of what it means that God holds your future in his wise, powerful, and gracious hands.

The person who is comfortable in his own righteousness hasn't really understood grace, and the person who is unimpressed by God's grace hasn't really understood his sin. So

Prayer is abandoning your place in the center of your world and daily surrendering that place to God alone as an act of heartfelt worship.

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

It is only when I live in a celebratory and restful worship of God that I am able not to take myself too seriously and I am free to serve and celebrate another.

God is holy, but we're not. Jesus became our righteousness so that we can stand before God, holy in him.

the theology of the Word of God is not an end in itself but a means to an end, and that end is a radically grace-transformed life.

So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.

El amor real, bíblico y que honra a Dios nunca compromete lo que Dios establece como bueno y malo.

You are eternally loved by God; you are eternally his son or daughter; what he wants for you is always right and best; and what he has planned for you is immeasurably better than anything you could have dreamed for yourself.

Theology without love is simply very bad theology.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

God not only gives you the grace to believe for your salvation, but he also works to enable you to live by faith.

It is more natural for your children to deny God's existence than it is for them to humbly recognize it and submit to his holy demands on their

biblical faith—that is, true faith in the existence, presence, promises, and provisions of God—never requires you to deny reality in any way. It is not biblical faith to try to convince yourself that things are better than they actually are. It is not biblical faith to work to make yourself feel good about what is not good. Biblical faith looks reality in the face and does not flinch.

praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

Prayer is much more than bringing to God your list of wants, desires, and needs. It is a radical act of worship that reminds you of who you are, who God is, and what life is all about. Prayer is surrender:

Awelessness that leads me to question God's power and character will cause me to take my life into my own hands, and because I have taken my life into my own hands, I will rebel against what God calls me to