God Quotes - Page 134

Independence is not an option for us. Remember, God existed without us.

Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you'll find it easier to trust Him next time.

Is my growing old making me any closer to Christ? Am I only getting older or am I getting more godly?

What is important is how well we love. God will make our love fruitful, whether we see that fruitfulness or not.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

Our God is a forgiving God.

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

One and God make a majority.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

And God, God who believes in us all. And who's given me this moment, in this lifetime, that I will hopefully carry to the end of my lifetime into the next lifetime.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

Each one of us is an outlet to God and an inlet to God.

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.

Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.

If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.