Quotes About God

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

It's funny how we 'do' Christmas. Christmas is not something that we do, it is something that was done. It celebrates the long awaited arrival of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. We had nothing to do with it, but what we can do is praise God for the coming of the Lord, who washed away the sins of the world by dying on the cross.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.

We make our plans, but God directs our steps.

If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.

That's called faith. Trusting God." His voice waffled. "We must be ready to hear from Him and respond, at any moment, no matter what the consequence.

I think God made us to desire beauty. But I'm learning we have to first find our beauty in God.

You're making this about your worthiness instead of God's

Humble and simple, he made her see God was accessible.

Humility is a magnet for His affection.

You don't need me or Gus to make you a princess. You are loved by God and that alone makes you royalty.

Humility is a magnet for God's affection,

Sometimes it does a chap's heart good to rescue a beautiful woman. Makes him remember why God rescued him.

You let him figure the outcome. We make our plans, but God directs our steps.

The saving of a life is equal in merit to the saving of the world. So it is said, he who saves one life saves a world. Yet if this was so, then what exactly was meant by world? Were there worlds of different size and merit? Or was the world of one soul as capacious as the world that contained all of creation—infinite, even? Was Ester's world, peopled by her parents and her brother, equal to all the others God had created?

What is the most valuable thing on earth? It's not the Hope Diamond, or the National Treasury. It's not a Picasso collection, or the Microsoft fortune. It is the wisdom of God, seen in the pages of your Bible. You've had access to it all along.

What we don't often realize is that stopping to rest is also an act of worship. It's not just something we do for ourselves—something we get to decide if and when it is needed. It's something we do with God, honoring Him.

Solomon's wisdom—flowing from the throne of God—brought the nation peace and prosperity like it had never known before. The forty years when Solomon sat as king were the best years in Israel's history. All because he asked God for wisdom and followed it.

Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

It's simply to point out that biblical holiness has no inherent connection to oldness, or tradition, or even particularly to rules. It's an identity, a fundamental self-concept, a core understanding of one's self and one's place in the world: I am not my own; I am set apart for God.

Fear and unbelief are actually correlated: if we allow fear to control our lives, it is a choice not to trust God.

Joe Saviour once told me that every life has a legend. Before the soul comes down to earth, God seals a story inside it. To know your purpose, you need to unravel the mystery of that legend.

Es cuando hay Dios, cuando todo está permitido. Así que nadie tan ferozmente peligroso como el justo, cargado de razón.