Quotes About God

I feel as if we're the centre of the universe and a kind God has blessed two imperfect people with a perfect moment.

What Ifs will either drive us to God and faith or they will drive us to worry and dependence on self. God gives peace and contentment; worry gives illness and misery.

God . . . is the blessed controller of all things, the king over all kings and the master of all masters. (1 Timothy 6:15, PH)

Greed builds a barrier that keeps us from becoming content with what God has given.

We affirm that God is love, but that love isn't true for us until we personalize it in our walk with Him. God gave His life for us as proof of His love for us. You are His child. He would do anything for you. Faith in Him is so much easier when you have the confident assurance that He loves you!

If we don't accept God's portion for us, we will become women with spirits of discontent.

Faith looks to God, but feelings look to what is going on around us. Faith hopes in who God is and in what He has promised.

If we want to be women of contentment, we must choose to accept our portion, our assigned roles from God.

No one can fulfill your purpose but you. And God's plan for you and His plan for me embrace far more than the events or circumstances that happen to us. They also embrace what God wants us to be and do and what He desires to do in and through us.

Our perspective is of utmost importance to God: where our hope is, where our treasure is, and what we are doing with the riches God has given us.

God cares about where your heart is, where your treasure is.

Are you going to judge God by the circumstances you don't understand or judge the circumstances in the light of the character of God?

The words of Scripture are plain: God hates greed. It's ugly. It breeds other sins. It consumes and controls us. We can't get rid of greed with a halfhearted wish or a token prayer. We must wholeheartedly come before the Lord and beg Him to remove this wretched leech with her long-reaching tentacles.

Instead of being anxious, we are to fix our focus on God and His righteousness.

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It's when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him and to mind the present.

Her tomorrows belonged to God. She had given them to Him. And because all her tomorrows were nestled in God's strong arms, she was free to live today. One day at a time she could make the right choices and grow to possess the holy habit of contentment. Ella's focus was eternal, and her focus led to an internal contentment.

God wants each of us to praise Him for His workmanship in creating us.

Paul recognized that the source and strength of all Christian contentment is God Himself.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money" (Matthew 6:24).

Within the human heart things have taken over. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution."6 We have mixed up what we serve and what we use. Sadly, many serve things and use God; the Scriptures instruct us to do just the opposite.

Listen to your heart. Listen to your words. Look at your actions. Are you teaching your children to be grateful for God's blessings?

Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider — God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him. (Ecclesiastes 7:13-14, NASB)

Perhaps it was the word God that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.