Quotes About God

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity. But

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

set before them the coming of Christ, who was both the foundation of the covenant and the bond of mutual communion between God and the people. Therefore

Thus even the most wicked are an example to us that throughout the world the knowledge of God has some power in the hearts of all people.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.

God very commonly takes on the character of a husband to us. Indeed, the union by which he binds us to himself when he receives us into the bosom of the church is like sacred wedlock.

he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

For how can some idea of God come into your mind without your immediately thinking (since you are His creation) that by the right of creation you are subject to His rule? That your life ought to be devoted to His service? That all that you plan or say or do should be related to Him? If this is so, it clearly follows that your life is wickedly corrupt unless it is ruled in obedience to His holy will.

For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.

The language of the Apostle well agrees with this view;   for he says that he was declared by power, because power, peculiar to   God, shone forth in him, and uncontestably proved him to be God; and   this was indeed made evident by his resurrection.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

the mark of sound doctrine given by our Saviour himself is its tendency to promote the glory not of men, but of God (John

the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.

For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.

Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The

we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This

But, as a heathen tells us,[54] there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish, as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.