Quotes about God

Where God through Elihu confronts Job with his audacity, that met my need at the time, causing me to realize and repent of my own accusations against God.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

We as Christians should put our trust in God, not in our nation's armaments.

Acknowledging His holiness is one of the ways we are to praise God.

We are just as dependent on God when the physician diagnoses a routine illness and prescribes a successful medication. We are just as dependent when the paycheck comes regularly and all our material needs are met.

The Scriptures never indicate that God is frustrated to any degree by our failure to act as we should.

God still holds us accountable for the very sins that He uses to accomplish His purpose.

But be it ever so small in our own eyes, when we sin we also break God's law. And Scripture says, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it" (James 2:10). God's law is seamless, one complete whole. So when we break any of it, we break the whole law.

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

God's providence clearly affirms that we can trust God.