Quotes About God

With God, we can be satisfied and fulfilled with very little, but without Him, all that we have will always be dry and deeply disappointing.

Whenever you are in a critical temper, it is impossible to enter into communion with God.

Repentance is shockingly beautiful when we see it not as "I sinned again, I need to repent," but as "I sinned against my God again, but He is calling me back so He can lavish me with His love and forgiveness.

If we believe God is present in our worship as He promises to be,20 then we must frame all language of worship as to Him and not merely about Him.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

in spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches."3 All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don't have to do anything. You've just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by "walk by the Spirit" is essentially "live in dependence on God's Spirit.

Preferring the comforting messages of certain attributes of God, our lives have become a trifling with His holiness. We desperately need to regain this view of the highness and the holiness of God. His holiness is the ultimate clarity.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

repentance. Not a onetime event for the forgiveness of sin and gift of eternal life but a lifetime pattern of humility before a holy God.

How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.

He brings eventual well-being for those who turn to Him, regardless of any hardship He may allow, but eventual calamity for those who reject Him, regardless of how well their immediate life may be going.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

Faith is active confidence in God.

Every step with God is a step of faith. Every lesson learned is a lesson of faith. Every victory won is a victory by faith. That's the prominence of faith in the New Testament.

Revival is: God, gladly at the center of my life, experienced and enjoyed.

But a Vertical Church teaches its people to judge every circumstance and opportunity in terms of its potential to reveal "the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Grace easily turns to hyper-grace in a world that has lost its view of God's throne room and a biblical theology of sin.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."1

Wake up, dude! It's not about who you are. It's all about who God is.

God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.