Quotes about God's name
The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.
- Carolyn Custis James
If it please you, the lady's name again? says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.
- Frederick Buechner
Jesus' primary concern—the very first petition of the prayer he teaches—is that more and more people, and more and more peoples, come to hallow God's name. This is the reason the universe exists. Missions exists because this hallowing does not.
- John Piper
My hope is that every reader will see that God's God-centeredness-- God's commitment to magnify his name, his holiness, and his glory as the ultimate aim of his providence-- is not a threat to our joy but the basis of it
- John Piper
Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
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- Scot McKnight
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.
- Ezra Taft Benson
You dare not lift your hands to place God's name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.
- Edmund Clowney
Ought we to put confidence in men who conduct themselves with rashness, and, though they assume authority in God's name, yet have no certain and lawful calling? We may learn, then, how neither angels nor men ought to be held in such honor as to induce us to receive whatever they bring forward, unless the Almighty has appointed them to be his ministers and interpreters.
- John Calvin
God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.
- John Piper
How is God's name hallowed among us? When both our doctrine and living are truly Christian.
- Martin Luther