Quotes about God

so much of what drives our responses to our kids is an unannounced set of laws that are more about what we want for ourselves and our lives than what God wants for and from our children. In our allegiance to our law, we end up breaking God's law in our interactions with our children. In this way we are just like our children: people who need to be rescued from ourselves. You

The most important thing that a child could ever learn about is the existence, character, and plan of God.

You are eternally loved by God; you are eternally his son or daughter; what he wants for you is always right and best; and what he has planned for you is immeasurably better than anything you could have dreamed for yourself.

At the end of the day, what do you long for: for God's grace to do its work or for more of the stuff that this physical created world has to offer?

This desire for transcendence is in all of us because God placed it there. He constructed us to live for more than ourselves.

God not only gives you the grace to believe for your salvation, but he also works to enable you to live by faith.

God, who loves us enough to sacrifice his Son for our redemption, works so that we would see ourselves clearly, so that we would not buy into the delusion of our own righteousness, and so that with a humble sense of personal need we would seek the resources of grace that can only be found in him.

Horizontal awe is meant to do one thing: stimulate vertical

It is more natural for your children to deny God's existence than it is for them to humbly recognize it and submit to his holy demands on their

biblical faith—that is, true faith in the existence, presence, promises, and provisions of God—never requires you to deny reality in any way. It is not biblical faith to try to convince yourself that things are better than they actually are. It is not biblical faith to work to make yourself feel good about what is not good. Biblical faith looks reality in the face and does not flinch.

praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

Prayer is much more than bringing to God your list of wants, desires, and needs. It is a radical act of worship that reminds you of who you are, who God is, and what life is all about. Prayer is surrender: