The God Quotes
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
Our culture says that feelings of love are the basis for actions of love. And of course that can be true. But it is truer to say that actions of love can lead consistently to feelings of love.
Your choices and decisions are a reflection of how well you’ve set and followed your priorities.
Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.
God’s love supersedes all religions and it is the core of all religions.
No matter what you do each day...or in life...doing things God's way is a matter of the heart.
God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
God dances with the outcast.
The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.
When it comes to the heart and soul, only the Bible can bring true and lasting changes.
If we are serious about loving God, we must begin with people, all people. And especially we must learn to love those that the world generally discards.
Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living acts of a Christian become somehow the acts of Christ.
You can change only what people know, not what they do.
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts
The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.
Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.
When you delight yourself in the Lord, His Word and His ways become the focus and foundation of your life.
Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.
A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world.
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.
Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God’s will.
Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian majority’s” private liking.
Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God.
If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.
The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
Worship is basically adoration, and we adore only what delights us. There is no such thing as sad adoration or unhappy praise.
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.
And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.
Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.
Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.
To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.
Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.