Quotes About God

The impetus for our mission task is to understand that everything we are—everything that happens to us and everything that we do—is to align us with the kingdom purpose for God to be exalted among the nations.

To play it safe is the most risky decision we could make. To risk is the safest decision we can make with God. No matter the short-term implications, we must obey God with reckless abandon.

Maybe the first thing we need to pray about is for God to help us see the huge field of people waiting to be harvested and to give us an incredible love for those people.

Missional churches act faithfully and intentionally wherever God gives them opportunity.

Everything created in the world should be seen in the context of existing for God's glory.

We believe the church's purpose is to glorify God, not to make people happy. The church does not exist for believers or unbelievers; it exists for God's glory, for the equipping of believers, and the church is God's missionary in the world.

Because God is in control and will redeem all things, I can be calm, bold, and gracious as I share the gospel.

It is not enough for us to read this portion of the Bible and picture the Apostles Paul and Peter along with the church simply doing their best to be nice people. These letters reveal the subversive nature of God's kingdom at work among the empires of humanity. God set in motion a rebellion against the rebellions of men.

What we see happening as we move further into the twenty-first century is a sovereign God moving through global events to open doors once closed to the gospel.

God is able to see beforehand all that happens in our lives and in the world, and He is able to establish a plan of how it can be used for His purpose and His glory. We are assured, "All the nations You have made will come and bow down before You, Lord, and will honor Your name" (Ps. 86:9).

A great barrier in finding God is impatience. We soon learn spiritual attainment must be earned. Understanding of God constantly enlarges so we never reach perfection.

Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.

the power to carry out God's will must come from the inspiration and energy that are found in the emotion, love-love that embraces God and humankind. We serve and appreciate both.

If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]

God, though, brings sanity to our lives through Christ. And the more we walk with God and yield to his truth, the further away from that craziness we get. That's normal crazy we all deal with.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

Apparently, some have forgotten that God, who killed sinners in the Old Testament, died for them in the New Testament. Unfortunately, legalistic Christians love spiritual law enforcement too much to make good New Testament believers. Legalism has never drawn a lost soul to Christ, and it never will. Love does! "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).

Dreaming is praying. When you pray you dream. When you pray God Knows.

The moon is a wink of God eye in our darker days, and the sun is the heat of his heart for our LOVE.

The moon is a wink of God eye, and the sun is the heat of His heart for our Love.

A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card.

The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.