Quotes about God

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.

when you blame other people for your circumstances or for the wrongs that you do, you are, in fact, blaming God. You are saying that God didn't give you what you needed to be what he has called you to be and to do what he has called you to do.

We all fail somehow, someway every day. Often failure is the workroom God uses in our lives to reform us to be what we need to be in order to be more successful tools in his hands.

The church is a community of unfinished people living in a broken world and still in need of God's forgiving and transforming grace. The church isn't meant, for either leaders or those being led, to be comfortable; it's meant to be personally transformational.

in a world where everything is in some state of decay, God's mercies never grow old. They never run out. They never are ill timed. They never dry up. They never grow weak. They never get weary. They never fail to meet the need. They never disappoint. They never, ever fail, because they really are new every morning.

Prayer finds its hope not in the qualifications of the one praying, but in the character and plan of the God who is hearing.

Idolatry occurs when anything created to point you to God replaces God in the thoughts and desires of your heart.

If you take credit as a leader instead of assigning credit to the one who sent you and who alone produces fruit out of your labors, you will praise less, pray less, and plan more.

Principle: Your children need God's law, but you cannot ask the law to do what only grace can accomplish.

This physical world was designed by God to be one big finger that points you to the only place where your heart will find satisfaction and rest.

To speak as Christ's ambassadors, we must understand God's mission and how it offers us practical guidance for the things we face with family, friendships, and the body of Christ. It's Been His Mission from the Beginning

there's no such things as a purely horizontal complaint. If I am complaining about the insensitivity of my physician, the lack of attention I am getting from my pastor, and the fact that my friends lack sympathy and understanding, I'm not just complaining about those people but also about the God who ordained all of them to be in my life.