God Quotes - Page 113

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Singleness and marriage are both evidences of God’s grace that are to be experienced and sustained purely by the strength which God supplies.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

You are a mirror of the Almighty...this is the reason you were created...your purpose.

Without worship, we go about miserable.

I am twelve thousand miles wiser, twelve thousand miles more resilient, and I have twelve thousand miles more faith in God.

Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

He that lives in love lives in God.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop, pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud "Thank you, God, for this symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life" Never once have I asked, "Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that."

The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the eyes will see God whether others see Him or not

Somewhere in our search for reality we have passed something by, something important that we no longer find amid the bits and pieces of disassembled matter-something vital that we cannot build out of these parts. There is surely something else, some piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and that owes no homage to the sun.

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

If God can't get the attention of the church house, He's certainly not going to stop by the White House.

He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.