Quotes About God

When their souls are rightly ordered, believers serve not only the good of the church, but are a means of God's blessing to all people.

the concept that real freedom is found by liberating the self from all binding commitments (to God, to marriage, to family), and be increasing worldly comforts - that is a road that leads to hell.

For the traditional Christian, establishing internal order is not mere discipline, nor is it simply an act of will. Rather, it is what theologian Romano Guardini called man's efforts to "regain his right relation to the truth of things, to the demands of his own deepest self, and finally to God."3

It also doesn't mean that "progress" divorced from God is progress at all. In fact, progress can become very dark in a secular context, without a biblical understanding of human fallibility and without the God of the Bible as the author of history and the judge of the earth.

Medieval metaphysicians believed nature pointed to God. Nominalists did not.

Psalm 46:10, "Be still and know that I am God" or "The Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him." (Habakkuk 2:20)

God is dead." Friedrich Nietzsche "Nietzsche is dead." God

Some say God's sittin' up in heaven mad as a hornet 'bout how we actin' down here, but I don't think he's mad at all. Ain't nobody mad coulda ever made somebody half as special as you.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Because God is perfect, his handiwork functions in accord with immutable principles. By the full use of our God-given powers of reason and observation, it ought to be possible to discover these principles. These were the crucial ideas that explain why science arose in Christian Europe and no where else.

Because God is a rational being and the universe is his personal creation, it necessarily has a rational, lawful, stable structure, awaiting increased human comprehension. This is the key to many intellectual undertakings, among them, the rise of science.

Science arose in the West—and only in the West—precisely because the Judeo-Christian conception of God encouraged and even demanded this pursuit.

In addition, since they were committed to reasoning about God, the Jews were quick to embrace the Greek concern for valid reasoning. What emerged was an image of God as not only eternal and immutable but also as conscious, concerned, and rational. The early Christians fully accepted this image of God. They also added and emphasized the proposition that our knowledge of God and of his creation is progressive. Faith in both reason and progress were essential to the rise of the West.

Now, shouts of "Dieu li volt!" (God wills it!) began to spread through the crowd, and men began to cut up cloaks and other pieces of cloth to make crosses and sew them against their chests. Everyone agreed that the next year they would set out for the Holy Land. And they did.

Trusting in God, the psalmist resolves that the plain way of righteousness shall be his choice, even if others may prefer the sinful paths of violence and deceit. Still he does not speak proudly nor proclaim his own strength, for he cries for redemption and pleads for mercy.

It was the beauty of the liturgy in St. Sophia that converted Russia to Orthodoxy after a fact-finding mission from Kiev in the tenth century experienced the service and reported back: "we knew not whether we were in Heaven or earth. For on earth there is no such splendour and beauty, and we are at a loss how to describe it. We only know that there God dwells among men.

The detailed gorgeousness of Orthodoxy was the reversed image of the sparse purity of Islam. One offered the abstract simplicity of the desert horizon, a portable worship that could be performed anywhere as long as you could see the sun, a direct contact with God, the other images, colors, and music, ravishing metaphors of the divine mystery designed to lead the soul to heaven. Both were equally intent on converting the world to their vision of God.

The lure of the Red Apple was dangled before the expectant gaze of the faithful. It was on these dual promises, so attractive to the tribal raider, of taking plunder while fulfilling the will of God, that Mehmet prepared his strike.

If God's love is absolutely different from the highest and best notions of love as we derive them from Scripture itself (especially from Jesus Christ), then the term is simply meaningless when attached to God. One might as well say "God is creech-creech"—a meaningless assertion.

Non-Calvinists take God's permissive will more seriously than Calvinists and explain biblical stories such as Joseph and his brothers (gen. 50) and the crucifixion of Jesus in that way—God foresaw and permitted sinful people to do things because he saw the good that he would bring out of them.49 But God by no means foreordained or rendered them certain.

Only a moral monster would refuse to save persons when salvation is absolutely unconditional and solely an act of God that does not depend on free will.

Ritschl taught that when Christians affirm the divinity of Jesus Christ, they mean that Jesus Christ has the value of God for them. Jesus was the inaugurator of the kingdom of God, which is God's highest good. Because Jesus' life was unequaled in devotion to the kingdom of God, he has the value of God. God realized his highest good in the man

Contemplation is nothing more than one's whole person being seized by the reality of God's love.

There is no incompleteness in the kingdom of God on God's side of the equation. Christ work is finished and it is perfect. Christ demonstrates repeatedly that the kingdom present in this age is completely adequate to heal all who come to Him in child-like faith.