Quotes about God

Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.

May God teach us that our thoughts, words, and feelings concerning our fellow man are His test of our humility towards Him.

Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.'—John 4: 23, 24.

And according to what we have of God will be our real humility, because humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.

As long as we take glory from one another, or seek, love, and jealously guard the glory of this life and the honor and reputation that comes from men, we do not seek and cannot receive the glory that comes from God.

God works to will, and He is ready to work to do, but, alas! many Christians misunderstand this. They think because they have the will, it is enough, and that now they are able to do. This is not so. … The power to do is not a permanent gift, but must be each moment received from the Holy Spirit.

Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is, from the very nature of things, the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue.

Would you allow other people to be masters in the home you dwell in? You never would. And yet, alas! you allow so much else to occupy the heart and have the place God alone is meant to have.

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.

Consider humility to be the mother-virtue, your very first duty before God, the one constant safeguard of the soul, and set your heart on it as the source of all blessing.

I need a divine omnipotence to work it in me. And that is what the apostle Paul teaches in Philippians 2:13: "It is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.