Quotes About God

When I say we should never ask why, I am not talking about the reactive and spontaneous cry of anguish when calamity first befalls us or one we love. Rather, I am speaking of the persistent and demanding why that has an accusatory tone toward God in it.

contrast, there are sixteen whys in the book of Job, according to author Don Baker.6 Sixteen times Job asked God why. He is persistent and petulant. He is accusatory toward God. And, as has been observed by many, God never answered Job's why. Instead He answered who.

God's providence is His constant care for and His absolute rule over all His creation for His own glory and the good of His people.

where God through Elihu confronts Job with his audacity, that met my need at the time, causing me to realize and repent of my own accusations against God.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

we as Christians should put our trust in God, not in our nation's armaments.

Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.

we are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God's law. And Scripture says, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (James 2:10). God's law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.

God never has to agonize over a decision. He does not even have to deliberate within Himself or consult others outside of Himself. His wisdom is intuitive, infinite, and infallible: "His understanding has no limit" (Psalm 147:5).

God sustains you and me: "He himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.... `For in him we live and move and have our being"' (Acts 17:25,28). He supplies our daily food (see 2 Corinthians 9:10). Our times are in His hands (see Psalm 31:15). Every breath we breathe is a gift from God, every bite of food we eat is given to us from His hand, every day we live is determined by Him.

Details are important, and God is just as sovereign over the details as He is over the so-called "big picture.

to see God solely as love is to overlook the beauty and the purpose of the cross.

Most of us are tempted, from time to time, to question God's love for

No one can harm you or jeopardize your future apart from the sovereign will of God.

I have done so for two reasons: First, that we might see the depth of God's love, not only in giving His one and only Son, but in giving Him to die for such people as Paul has described us to be.

God never allows pain without a purpose in the lives of His children. He never allows Satan, nor circumstances, nor any ill-intending person to afflict us unless He uses that affliction for our good. God never wastes pain. He always causes it to work together for our ultimate good, the good of conforming us more to the likeness of His Son (see Romans 8:28-29).

The Bible is not merely a book about God; it is a book from God.