Quotes About God

the pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

Above all else, our response to adversity should be to seek God's glory.

The so-called sovereign nations of the world are not truly sovereign. They are nothing more than instruments in the hand of God to accomplish His will:

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

The good that God works for in our lives is conformity to the likeness of His Son.

God's unfailing love for us is an objective fact affirmed over and over in the Scriptures. It is true whether we believe it or not. Our doubts do not destroy God's love, nor does our faith create it.

Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.

Most of us probably entertain either of these attitudes on different days. On a good day (as we perceive it), we tend toward self-righteous Pharisaism. On a not-so-good day, we allow ourselves to wallow in a sense of failure and guilt. Either way we've moved away from the gospel of God's grace, trying to relate to God directly on the basis of our performance rather than through Christ.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe that just as certainly as God will allow nothing to subvert His glory, so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

The perfect righteousness that we pursue is unattainable in this life. But if we hunger and thirst for it and diligently pursue it, over time we will grow more and more into the person God wants us to be.

For us to trust God in times of adversity, we must believe in God's sovereignty, His love, and His wisdom. Of these three truths, the sovereignty of God seems to be questioned the most frequently and most stridently. It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

I realized anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don't feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.

We shouldn't make requests of God to try to prove that He is listening and that He loves us. We should make our requests because He is listening and He loves us. Faith is not the same as assuming that even if we disobey God, He will do for us whatever we want. Faith is claiming God's promises and seeing our lives change with His power.

AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

The Bible is a love story. Time and time again it illustrates how much God loves the world in spite of its sinful disobedience...The last book of the Bible, the Revelation of St John the Divine, creates a beautiful and yet terrifying picture of those last days when God will reveal Himself in judgment and in grace to all creation.

Does God determine, solely according to his own unilaterally established will, exactly who will be saved and who will be lost?

However, it does seem theologically objectionable to think God's attitude toward us would change in anything like this manner merely because we had died. There is no obvious reason why justice requires God to cease having mercy at death and to punish those who have not repented by that time.

One may hope that in the very moment of death, lost souls turn to God, and instead of passing through the gates of hell to hopeless eternal misery, they go instead to purgatory.

To believe in God is to believe not only that love is stronger than death but also that joy is stronger than boredom.

It is not only the far too prominent moral failures among Christians that bring shame to God and deprive Him of being glorified in our lives but simply the lack of Spirit-led submission to one another. Our independent, self-centered attitudes create dissension that paralyzes the work of God and makes us no different from the world.