God Quotes - Page 130

The plain, unvarnished truth is, that every one of us needs the accountability that comes from formal, regular, intimate relationships with other godly people.

God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

When a liberal is abused, he says, ‘Thank God they didn’t beat me.’ When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.

I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death.

The only love that won’t disappoint you is one that can’t change, that can’t be lost, that is not based on the ups and downs of life or of how well you live. It is something that not even death can take away from you. God’s love is the only thing like that.

The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.

Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and concentration in the later phases, which thenselves come about through an accumulation of small accidents: examples of general injustice, misfortune falling upon the godly, prayers of one's own unanswered.

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.

What have I done, dear God, to deserve this perpetual feeling that I'm almost ready to begin something really new?

When God forgives, He at once restores.

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

How you respond to the enemy of your soul determines whether his plan for your life or God's plan for your life is realized.

We must trust God, not only WHEN we do not understand, but BECAUSE we do not understand.

Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God.

It is actually helpful to acknowledge the truth that we are just as quirky as everyone else and that God loves quirky!

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all, for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

The idea of demonstrating that this unknown something [God] exists, could scarcely suggest itself to Reason. For if God does not exist it would of course be impossible to prove it, and if he does exist it would be folly to attempt it.

I used to pray that God would do this or that; now I pray that God will make His will known to me.

The world is God's language to us.

Sometimes, our greatest strengths can be found while trusting God through our greatest obstacles.

God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.