God Quotes - Page 52

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

If you examine your life well, you will find many instances when God showed His unmistakable mercy to you. Trouble was brewing, but it passed you by for some reason. God delivered you. Acknowledge these and thank God, Who loves you.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Praying is not telling God what to do. It's trusting that God knows what to do.

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as possible. If a needy person requires medicine or other help during prayer time, do whatever has to be done with peace of mind. Offer the deed to God as your prayer.... Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash. We're going across the field.... They're singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, I tell you what: These doggone white people - not a word!... Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

God has no religion.

If you are a child of God, know that every promise in the Bible is yours.

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Act, and God will act.

If we repeatedly read the Bible without the help of the Holy Spirit, it tends to reinforce our own prejudices and rock-hard doctrinal positions. We end up merely finding ammunition for what we already believe. We become so spiritually proud, so convinced of our own positions, that the Spirit is hindered in helping us to grow in the things of God.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.

When you're in love with God, you're not afraid to yield your life to Him.

To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.