The God Quotes
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.
That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.
The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.
Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.
God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.
There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye, smile, and say, "Hello.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.
Your problems aren't too big -- perhaps your worship is too small.
There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.
Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against?
Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.
When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
You may only get this one life – but lived free of submissive reverence – that is still a thing of rampant beauty.
Collect moments rather than things. Moments get away.
This is the power of myth: that we can experience invisible spiritual realities and truths greater than visible, material things in story form.
What the spiritual journey is all about is uniting our will with God's will, wanting what He wants, loving what He loves, living a life that in all its aspects honors Him and gives Him glory.
Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints.
If no divine law is recognized above the law of the State, then the law of man has become absolute in men's eyes--there is then no logical barrier to totalitarianism.