God Quotes - Page 82

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.

Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection.

The public has become my fairy godmother.

There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

If you are at a hard place in life, hesitant to ask for help, God invites you to ask Him so He can meet your need.

He who knows himself knows god.

Were there no God, we would be in this glorious world with grateful hearts, and no one to thank.

There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner's stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.

It’s not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it’s those who humble themselves.

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

God has a plan for your retirement.

We are all writing God's poem.

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the idea of God using you to meet your brother's unexpected need.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.