The God Quotes

For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call ‘Cosmic Laws’ or ‘Natural Laws’ or ‘Universal Laws’.

Peace is something that comes from within. It is created by your willingness to accept yourself.

God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.

Programming language is to the computer

His action was inexcusable, but it was forgivable.

Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on.

Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deeply into the magnificent, eternal, ridiculous, overwhelming love that God has for us.

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

Emotions embarassed her except when she sang. My dad said that was exactly why she sang.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.

The Ten Commandments, for example, were no more challenging than the Girl Scout oath, and why should anyone be tempted to put one false god ahead of another?

This is God's world, so everything, even if it intends to efface God, bears witness to God – understood and interpreted through biblical eyeglasses.

Religion allows people to ignore the needs of real beings in favour of the supposed wishes ofa being that does not exist.

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

[A]ny being with thesupposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

We can give up belief in God while not losing touch with a treasured heritage.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains

Obsoletes and absolutes are the stock in trade of religions that place their faith in an 'unchanging' god while faced with the reality of an ever-changing world.

Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.

...celebrating the Eucharist as a remembrance of Christ means practicing God's justice towards neighbors, strangers, and enemies alike.

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves.

As a God, you can only ever be as healthy as yourworshippers. They are after all what your body is made of.

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

My greatest gratitude

It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. He worries about sin because He craves righteousness, but also, simply, because He loves us.

There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.

The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God’s good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.

As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.

Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million

When challenged by a zealous Popperian to say how evolution could ever be falsified, J. B. S. Haldane famously growled: 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

Everything I try to hide ends up screaming from a mountaintop.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock.