Me Or God Quotes
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.
Once upon a time, a king came to earth to tell stories, and the stories contained the mystery of eternal life.
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.
If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God’s truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.
All states of consciousness, no matter how mystical, ecstatic or divine, are gloriously born through the protoplasmic activity of the brain.
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
I count myself as one of the number of those who learn as they write and write as they learn.
Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.
Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.
After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
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.
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.
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.
Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.
When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.
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.
It is a dangerous trap to believe that our search is over because we have gained all the riches we are going to have.
When you think on the powerful truths of Scripture, God uses His Word to change your way of thinking.
Is this some kind of joke?""That's for me to know and you to find out.""Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit sui
In Jesus the performance pendulum stops — both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.
Everything that God wants to say to you is recorded in your Bible…straight from His heart to yours.
When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.
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.
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.
To understand Jesus Christ, you must know the Language of Heaven.
God did not give us the gospel to convince humanity
It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.
What we are at this very moment, is determined by the sum total of all our experiences till this moment.
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
Where Love meets action, there be God.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.
Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)
Your imperfections make you the perfect tool for God to work with. John 3:16
Some people react to suffering by denying the very possibility of God's existence
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth—Trouble ahead
Solomon smiles with us
We do not need a new moral order
No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future
How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either