The God Quotes
Let us live not only to serve God ourselves
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
We never feel Christ to be a reality, until we feel Him to be a necessity.
When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.
Realize that God uses the fires of life to purify your faith, to shape you into Christ’s image, and to cause you to love Him…even more!
A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.
We like to control the map of our life and know everything well in advance. But faith is content just knowing that God's promise cannot fail. This, in fact, is the excitement of walking with God.
We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him
School never teaches you about this mangled human slime, it slays me. You spend all your time learning the capital of Surinam while these retards carve their initials in your back.
The Path of Purpose is paved with healing. That healing goes as deep as the wound or only as deep as you let it.
God does not call the "qualified" but qualifies the called
If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.
Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.
If there is no scent of Christ’s love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.
Waiting on God is not in vain!
God created every heart, every person for relationship. Connection has the power to both impact a person's life today as well as their eternal destiny.
In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.
Life is hard. If anyone tells you otherwise, they're lying. But life without faith is even harder.
The act of committing yourself to the Lord daily allows Him to guide you.
What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.
Where darkness had once overshadowed many of us, the radiant light of Christ exposed the truth that not one of us is truly ever alone.
Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.
Focus on giants - you stumble.Focus on God - Giants tumble.
A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.
A friend who will never fail is the one who will stand by you regardless of the situation, time or location.
Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.
When it comes to salvation, we are all fugitives. Psalm 119:176
Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.
Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
Secrets had the power to kill a marriage, she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said, it was secrets that could save a marriage.
My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.
You know what turns dirt into diamonds?""Pressure. Weight. Heat...""The geological equivalent of torture.
He leaned back in his seat throwing his hands behind his head
...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.
Remember, today's challenges are tomorrow's testimonies.
Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him.
God isn’t in the event
Welcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Skip the bowls of fruit and statues. Let the page flick your thumbs. This is His spoken word.
Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.
Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust.
You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.
I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to be on the team of the leader who leads without prayer.
My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.
As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.
prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests.