God Quotes - Page 141

Doubt is a lack of confidence or assurance that God will keep his promises. Faith is an active confidence that God's promises are always true.

God's people cannot be shamed into serving God; they need to be challenged.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

There's hope. It doesn't cost a thing to smile. You don't have to pay to laugh. You better thank God for that.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

Now let me burn out for God.

Christian life is not a life divided between times for action and times for contemplation. No. Real social action is a way of contemplation, and real contemplation is the core of social action.

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God.

God will always make a way where there is no way.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.

...that is our calling: to show that there is a reality in personal relationship, and not just words about it.

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

God's presence is all that matters.