God Quotes - Page 14

It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

If there be a God, I think he would like me to paint Africa British-Red as possible.

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps and in imperfect form, but a real demonstration nevertheless.

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

God doesn't bless us just to make us happy; He blesses us to make us a blessing.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.

A Godly leader ... finds strength by realizing his weakness finds authority by being under authority finds direction by laying down his plans finds vision by seeing the needs of others finds credibility by being an example finds loyalty by expressing compassion finds honor by being faithful finds greatness by being a servant

The MORE you Trust in the Arm of the FLESH, the LESS you're going to see of the POWER of GOD.

Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.

Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.

He who trusts himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

When we demonstrate our faith in God by our obedience, He not only promises to provide for us, He will provide.

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.