Quotes About God

If true humanity is bound up in community with God and godly community with others, I will never experience it when all my eyes ever see is my own need.

There is a God of awesome grace who meets his children in moments of darkness and difficulty. He is worth running to. He is worth waiting for. He brings rest when it seems like there is no rest to be found.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

Sinners tend to move away from defining themselves in relationship to their Creator and begin defining themselves in relationship to the creation.

Not only does sin blind, but as sinners, we participate in our own blindness. We all swindle ourselves into thinking that we are better than we are, that what we're doing is okay when, in fact, it's not okay in the eyes of God. The spiritual reality is that we're like naked homeless people, but we see ourselves as affluent and well-dressed.

En lugar de que sea el amor de Dios moldeando mis relaciones y motivaciones, el amor por mí mismo toma el control.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction.

God's purpose in controlling the details of your life (the exact length of it and the locations where you live) is so that at any moment in the middle of your unfolding story, you can reach out and touch him, because his rule makes him very near to every one of us. What each of us really needs in our finite and faltering humanness is not so much the success of our plans, but God himself.

Everything that was created was made by God and for God. All the glories of the created world were designed to point to his glory. The universe is his, designed to function according to his purpose and plan. That includes you and me. We were not made to live independent, self-directed lives. We were not meant to exist according to our own little self-oriented plans, living for our own moments of glory. No, we were created to live for him.

the Bible is not a collection of stories, but one big story with lots of chapters. It is the story of how God meets weak and failing people with his powerful grace.

Here is what life is all about. At its center is a God of awesome glory—glorious in power, wisdom, faithfulness, love, and grace. Here is what everyone needs—rescue by this glory. Here is what everyone was created for—to live for this glory. Here is grace—that God would choose to splash his eternal glory down on inglorious, unthankful, rebellious, and self-oriented people such as us.

The answer to the big question we have proposed is really quite easy and straightforward. What is God up to right here, right now? Redemption! He is actively working on sin's final defeat and our complete deliverance. He is working out the spoils of the victory that Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary.

Just like Adam, when we blame people and situations for our problems, below the surface we are also making accusations against God.

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

Biblical literacy and theological expertise are not, therefore, the end of the Word but a God-ordained means to an end, and the end is a radically transformed life because the worship at the center of that life has been reclaimed.

We will never fully explain the world by appealing to something outside it that must simply be accepted on faith, be it an unexplained God or an unexplained set of mathematical laws.

The Lord, like every woman I have ever known, was cold and distant.

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.

If there is a God, he's a great mathematician.

God is a mathematician of a very high order and He used advanced mathematics in constructing the universe.

The best gift of the desert is God's presence.

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden.