Quotes about God's Work

Do you realize that after eminent success in God's work, there is more need for prayer than when we are at the foothills of a struggle for survival? The moments of victory and success are more dangerous than moments of darkness and depression.

God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

Either your heart lives in a fundamental, life-shaping awe of the horizontal, physical, created world ("things that are on the earth"), or your heart lives in a foundational vertical awe of God, his work, his grace, and his kingdom. If your

And they understand that if their children grow and mature in life and godliness, they become not so much their trophies, but trophies of the Savior that they have sought to serve. For them, it's God who does the work and God who gets the glory; they are just gratified that they were able to be the tools that God used.

What is God doing in the here and now? He is employing the difficulties of life as tools of grace to produce character in you that would not grow any other way.

What was the mission of Jesus? What is the promise of the bloody cross and the empty tomb? What is the ultimate goal of the reigning King Christ? What is the scope of the work of redemption? What in the world is God working on? What does the final chapter of the grand redemptive story look like?

The success of a ministry is always more a picture of who God is than a statement about who the people are that he is using for his purpose.

And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.