Quotes About God

If the holiness of God is not perceived and understood, then the entire work and conduct of God are not grasped.'29

revelation is the self-presentation of the triune God, the free work of sovereign mercy in which God wills, establishes and perfects saving fellowship with himself in which humankind comes to know, love and fear him above all things.

He asks too much to whom God is not sufficient.

There is nothing more soul-destroying than to be filled with anxious hankerings which are kept back from God. At the root of half our human tragedies lie worries that have never been resolved into prayers.

now I am my own mirror and that which I was I am no more, for "I" and "God" is a denial of the unity of God. Since I am no more, God Most High is His own mirror. Now I say that God is the mirror of myself, for with my tongue He speaks and I have passed away.

Given the world that he created, it would be an impiety against God to believe in him.

Off thaim I thynk this buk to ma: Now God gyff grace that I may swa Tret it, and bryng it till endyng, That I say nocht bot suthfast thing!

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

I have remarked elsewhere that I regard the Almighty as not a bad novelist, except that He is a realist.

But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!

There I found my sole comfort: Jesus, my only friend. I could talk only to Him. Talking to other people bored me, even when we spoke about religion. I felt it better to speak to God than about Him. There's often so much self-love involved in chatter about spiritual things!

By his gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging his condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of his love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization.45 [1084D] For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystey of his embodiment.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

Anybody who passes more than a day in eternity is as old as God could ever be.

There is no need for God to situate himself in relation to others: he is himself the situation.

Mountainous, woman not breaks and will bend:sways God nearby: anguish comes to an end.Blossomed Sarah, and Iblossom. Is that thing alive? I hear a famisht howl.

Pioneering is not feeling well, not Indians, beasts. Not all their riddling can forestall one leaving. Sam, your uncle has had to go fróm us to live with God. 'Then Aunt went too?' Dear, she does wait still. Stricken: 'Oh. Then he takes us one by one.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

300 million people turned into jelly by The Wave and Rupert Murdoch wasn't one of them. There is no god.