Quotes About God

Hidden in your fears is the faith you are searching for. If you want to meet God, stand in your fears. Stand in your pain. Stand when everything inside you tells you to withdraw. Elijah ran from God and ran right into him.

By the way, if you're running from God, he's already waiting for you, wherever your journey takes you. No matter how far you run, he will be just as close to you as he was when you left.

There are times when you will choose to walk with God and you will feel as if you are walking alone. Yet you must not forget that you are never alone: God is always with you.

For our lives to be works of art, we need to allow a lifetime of work. We must give God the time to make us works of art. We must press close to God and allow both the tenderness of his touch and the pressure of his hands to shape us and mold us into someone we would not be without him.

Se trata de tomar las decisiones difíciles de dejar atrás aquello que te robaría el futuro que Dios quiere para ti.

TO LIVE A PRAYERLESS LIFE IS TO MISS THE LIFE THAT GOD CREATED YOU TO EXPERIENCE. YET THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PRAYER CAN BECOME A RELIGIOUS VEIL FOR AN EMPTY LIFE.

The warrior lives to fulfill God's intention that the world would reflect all that is good and beautiful and true.

When we offer ourselves as instruments for God's purpose, we create opportunities for others to experience God through us. We become living lightning rods of God's activity. Our lives become the X that marks the spot. Our obedience creates a spiritual epicenter through which God shakes up the world around us and others come to know Him. HIS

At least on an unconscious level, a part of our struggle with God is our discomfort with love. It seems no matter how beautiful or wanted we are, there's always something inside us that remains insecure. All of us find ourselves uncertain when it comes to love.

When nature seems to bend to the will of God and man, we call it a miracle. Is it possible that what we define as a miracle is simply the reestablishing of the proper order of creation?

We are called to fear only God. There is an important reason for this. What we fear is what we're subject to; our fears define our master. Where there is no fear, there is no control.

Don't let your shortcomings and flaws convince you that you need to become something other than human. Our brokenness is not proof that God could not or would not love us, but proof that what we need is the God who both created us and loves us. What our souls long to become is not something other than human, but to become beautifully human.

Whether I would survive a defeat lies in God's hands. The lot of the vanquished is heavy. I'm happy in my own conscience that I've done all I can for victory and have not spared myself.

As soon as a man stopped wandering and stood still an looked around him, he found a god in that place.

How to explain Time and Separateness back to God, Who had never thought of them, Who could let the whole world come to grief in a scattering moment?

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him. So I have a secret hope of someone, a God, who is wise and plans; but my hopes grow dim when I see the deeds of men and their destinies. For Fortune is ever veering, and the currents of life are shifting, shifting, wandering for ever.

Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don't believe, no evidence can be enough.

Does God know I'm still here? Does God know it's still me inside?" "Sure He does! Of course He does! He's right with you. he's right there." "Because I feel really alone sometimes." "You're not alone." I move to her, put my hand on her shoulder. "You're not, believe me.

In God, the life of the flesh became the story of the spirit. I loved that story, no matter what.

The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.

It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.

Because God's reality is reality, there is no way to escape it. Because it is goodness itself, there is no way to defy it with anything but evil. When it comes to the politics of rebellion and change, the rebel can either seek to work in partnership with God's creation or find himself outside it and thus in hell.

Don't worry about anything—pray about everything instead.

A metaphor has three parts: the object we are trying to describe, the term we use to describe it, and the idea that is conveyed when the two come together. In this, a metaphor is itself a metaphor for the Trinity. In the Trinity, the object we are trying to describe is God the Father, the term we use to describe it is Jesus the Son, and when we grasp that idea, we are filled with the Spirit.