The God Quotes
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
God wants you to always call Him not because you need Him but because you love Him. Matthew 22:37
The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.
You are unshakable, the Lord is your rock, and redeemer, when the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart are pleasing before Him. Psalm 9:14
The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.
I do not politicize Christianity nor my discipleship as Jesus did not politicize either His divinity nor his humanity.
It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
Christianity was derailed when Bible Schools became certification centers for true apostles of Christ. Where is the Holy Spirit? John 16:13
Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.
No more the victory of spirit over matter and definitely not the victory of matter over spirit – the next stage is not one overcoming the other, but a merge.
When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.
God may withhold an answer to prayer until we relinquish control of the outcome and put our complete trust in Him.
The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.
All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.
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.
If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God’s truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.
There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.
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.
In the Bible we find everything we need to guide and energize our lives, to keep us on track so that we live out God’s plan.
Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
If you feel that without a certain person, or position, or achievement, your life would be not worth living, you may be deeper into idolatry than you think.
The person who learns to number his or her days gains a heart of wisdom (Ps. 90:12).
Heaven will happen someday, but let's not wait. Heaven can start now.
The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable
With different changes but the same plot, sometimes our story has already unfolded. It's just trapped in the pages of ink and paper. God is waiting in His Word.
Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul.
God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.
Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.
If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
Theology is an attempt to hack god's mind and look at the universe as he does
A man after God's own heart is...a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.
The universe does not reveal itself to undergraduates or fools: This is the entire premise of higher education.
True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.
Greatness is not just upon 'a few chosen ones
A mothers greatest joy in having a child is to give that child fully and freely to God.
Some people will always talk no matter what you do or say
With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.
A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.
Life isn't always about finding yourself. More often than not, it's about discovering who God created you to be.
When we own our beliefs, we have clear boundaries. We know what we believe and we know what others believe. There is no confusion. Our identity is strong to us and everyone else.
Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.