God Quotes - Page 140

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

I'm very much of the "make it dark, make it grim, make it tough", but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

The nearer to the church, the further from God.

The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

So you can't lose serving God, and that all things work together for good.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

God is everywhere present by His power. He rolls the orbs of heaven with His hand; He fixes the earth with His foot; He guides all creatures with His eye, and refreshes them with His influence; He makes the powers of hell to shake with His terrors, and binds the devils with His word.

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.