God Quotes - Page 29

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

There is always death at the end of your plan and life at the end of God's plan.

If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

We can always find a reason to praise. Situations change for better and for worse, but God's worth never changes.

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Of course you'll encounter trouble. But behold a God of power who can take any evil and turn it into a door of hope.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

If you have the smile of God what does it matter if you have the frown of men?

All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

When the drama of history is over, Jesus Christ will stand alone on the stage. All the great figures of history ... will realize that they have been but actors in a drama produced by another.

Imagine a person who comes in here tonight and argues 'no air exists' but continues to breathe air while he argues. Now intellectually, atheists continue to breathe - they continue to use reason and draw scientific conclusions [which assumes an orderly universe], to make moral judgments [which assumes absolute values] - but the atheistic view of things would in theory make such 'breathing' impossible. They are breathing God's air all the time they are arguing against him.

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.