Quotes About God

For I know that there are numberless people who, in order to gratify one of their appetites, would destroy God and the whole of the universe. If this art has never remained among men, although so necessary to them, it never existed, and never will exist.

Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.

In emphasizing God's love over his holiness--his set-apartness as a sovereign, omniscient authority--we end up believing that his central concern is our individual happiness.

The enfleshing of the words of God is not done. The Word became flesh so that now, our flesh can become word. God is writing his story through the details of our lives as well.

I believe God wants to accomplish His work supernaturally on the face of the earth. He wants to take natural people and work supernaturally through them to bring about a mighty surge of His power, just the way He worked through Howard Carter. I challenge you to make yourself ready for Him to use you in this wonderful moment in which we live today.

Faith is walking with God. If you get up in the mornings angry and screaming at everybody, you are not demonstrating that you have a bad temper so much as you are demonstrating that you don't have faith. When you walk with God, you demonstrate His nature.

You say, "How can I increase my faith?" Know more about God. The secret of having more faith is to know more about God. Faith has a direct relationship with our knowledge of God.

People eulogize Smith Wigglesworth. They call him a prophet of faith. But what they don't know is he sat almost all day, every day, reading the Bible, praying, and ministering to people. If you had asked him to do something else, he would have thought you were crazy. His knowledge of God was tremendous.

When we have faith in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we can expect the miracle power of God to function.

Both faith and love flow from the heart of God. If you can get hold of both of them, you will have life upon this earth without limitations.

In Christ there is confidence. We relax in Him. We're not nervous. We're not saying, "Oh, is it going to happen?" That's not in the language. It's going to happen because it has always happened. In faith there is the element of confidence which brings relaxation in God. It's a matter of just leaning on Him.

Faith is when God and man choose to walk together in life, to think together, and I'd even say, to laugh together. For the faith life is the happiest life. Faith has no relationship with idleness. It has to do with a man who gets out there and goes for God, and God goes for him.

There are some things about God that, were I to stop believing them, my world would change color, my hope would turn sour, and the meaning of my life would be yanked inside out.

sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers

We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.

Do you think they missed him terribly when he fell? Did God cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

So. Tell me," Marlowe tried gamely, "what do you think is man's greatest invention?" Jericho turned his head just slightly toward Marlowe, looking him straight in the eye. "God.

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

Cómo se inventa uno una religión? —preguntó Evie. Will la miró por encima de los cristales de sus gafas. —Dices 'Dios me ha dicho lo siguiente', y luego esperas a que la gente se apunte.

Adina appealed to the sky. We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect abs? Thank you, God, Petra said.

I've never understood this obsession with where we are from that we Americans seem to have. We are from here, are we not? Sometimes I find this clannishness, these ties to old homelands, ancient traditions, and familial bloodlines, to be nothing more than fear—the same fear that keeps us praying to an absent God.

Octavia might've believed that it was the Devil's business, not the Lord's, but it seemed to Memphis that if there was a God, it would be downright cruel of him to bestow people with certain talents and then expect them not to use those talents. People had to be who they were.