Quotes about God

God revealed Himself progressively through visions, dreams, visible manifestations and through His many names.

Solomon fell after God spoke twice to him in an audible voice, and after he saw the Glory of God fill the temple.

The name is considered so sacred that when the scribes would record YHVH (Yahweh) in the scriptures, they would wash, write the name, then wash themselves again! The name was considered so sacred that in the synagogues in Christ's time, when the speaker was to read the sacred name of God, he replaced it with the name Adonai. This would become the covenant name of God to the Hebrew nation.

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

As the Trappist monk Thomas Merton says: 'God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

God brings his presence 'into the house', and we are called to release it back out into the world or the blessing will die.

Jesus is what God sounds like. He's literally the "living Word of God." Hearing his voice is not so much a skill we must master, therefore, as a master we must meet.

God is far too real to be met anywhere other than in reality.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

Waiting on God, according to Scripture, is not a passive, vacuous state but rather an active process of asking, seeking and engaging with his Spirit.

intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.