The God Quotes
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Where Love meets action, there be God.
What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.
We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.
God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity
To understand Jesus Christ, you must know the Language of Heaven.
If you don't truly believe in Jesus Christ, fear will be your worst enemy at the End of the Age. The gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of no fear. John 14:1-4.
If you do not believe you are a lost sheep, then you do not need a Savior who is the Good Shepherd Jesus Christ. John 10:11-14.
When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.
Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.
When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.
It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
All we have to do is ask and believe that God will work on our behalf and give us what we need to overcome and rise above the adversities and stress that we are facing.
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. Biblical counselors seek to understand the influences that shape the responses of the human heart.
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
Jonah’s anger was not marked by outbursts of rage but by a quiet withdrawal from the company of others and a growing preoccupation with the events in his own life.
After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.
I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
People who insist upon dressing casually also want to think casually. And in a fallen world, thinking casually means being wrong more often than not.
Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.
The humility of wisdom is the happy consciousness that all things come from God, are sustained by God, and exist for God. This wisdom is rooted in the pride-destroying, joy-giving cross of Christ.
Someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created
You kill one, there was another in his place, and what's worse, his nephew now hated you, his friend now hated you. . . . There was no end.
Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
The principle of freedom is the fundamental principle of morality and the objective of justice.
Life is a manifestation of the fundamental laws of physics, and in its highest form, life manifests the fundamental laws of physics as a human organism endowed with a capacity for moral judgement.
If this dysfunctional family was the best Sodom had to offer by way of morals, some might begin to feel a certain sympathy with God and his judicial brimstone.
Community service has become a patch for morality. You can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck.
Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.
The equilibrium of power between God and Human is getting so close
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...
The speech of God’s beautiful woman is a fountain of life to those around her.
We must pay a price if we are to become priceless.
The greatest thing in all the world is loving. The second greatest in all the world is learning.
For many things were shown, Recorded and written down.But what is God to do, When His Word you do renounce?
Oh, man, ‘the nursery, ’ ” Dominic said, “what a hell-hole. If I had kids I’d give them the nicest room in the house.”“You do have kids, ” his kid said.“Oh, yeah, well, right, you know what I mean.
Simply building a fence between a child and temptation is not the same things as preparing him to face life.
If we, as mothers, are not careful we can begin to find our identity in our children and their behavior
Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.