Quotes About God

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.

With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.