Quotes About God

Humility means that you acknowledge you don't know everything, and you might be especially confused when it comes to God.

The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.

God really does speak in our suffering, and we have good reason to believe that the words he says are good and powerful enough to lighten our pain.

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

If we look only at God's love, we will not need him, and there will be no urgency in the message of the cross. If we focus narrowly on God's justice, we will want to avoid him, and we will live in terror-fear, always feeling guilty and waiting for punishment.

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

Worry's magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.

Once at Golgotha where he would be crucified, the people continued their festival of shame, not knowing that their attempts to heap shame on the Creator God were the most disgraceful acts in human history.

They say the Lord gives and the Lord takes away. I have never been given very much. What was there to take away?

329 A maxim which he frequently repeats is, that the knowledge of ourselves is the necessary and only step by which we can ascend to the knowledge and love of God.

On the Day of Judgement, God will interrogate people according to the wisdom he has granted them.

Such was God's original love for man, that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love.

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

The Lord God is subtle, but malicious he is not.