Quotes About God

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

Six things are requisite to create a "happy home." Integrity must be the architect, and Tidiness the upholsterer. It must be warmed by Affection, lighted up with Cheerfulness; and Industry must be the ventilator, renewing the atmosphere and bringing in fresh [vitality] day by day; while over all, as a protecting canopy and glory, nothing will suffice except The blessing of God.

The effectiveness of your ministry to people will be in direct proportion to the time you spend away from people and with God in a quiet time of preparation.

God desires that we develop spiritual muscle so we are strong enough to be His kind of wife.

The key is putting into practice what God has taught you through His Word.

To know God's will is man's greatest treasure; to do His will is life's greatest privilege.

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

If a couple isn't following God's guidelines for life or being led by the Holy Spirit, disagreements and misunderstandings skyrocket.

Like a fountain of refreshing water in the dusty, dry desert streets, a heart God fills with His love ministers life and health.

When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.

My boy," he said quietly, "we have not forgotten. We feel as you do. In his heart every Jew grieves at our captivity. We have need of patriotism like yours. But we have need also of patience. We must not say we cannot endure what God in His judgment has visited upon us." "But how long—must we endure it for ever?" "God has not spoken His final word. Until He does, it is our part to endure.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

To find the balance you want, this is what you must become. You must keep your feet grounded so firmly on the earth that it's like you have 4 legs instead of 2. That way, you can stay in the world. But you must stop looking at the world through your head. You must look through your heart, instead. That way, you will know God.

Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be... a prudent insurance policy.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

God dwells within you, as you.

God is an experience of supreme love.

I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote myself to God.

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.