Quotes about God

But however they may sport with its uncertainty, had they to seal their own doctrine with their blood, and at the expense of life, it would be seen what value they put upon it. Very different is our confidence - a confidence which is not appalled by the terrors of death, and therefore not even by the judgment - seat of God.

Man is endowed with a singular excellence, for God formed him in his own image and likeness, in which we see a bright refulgence of God's glory.

Hence we judge the papal sacraments to be frivolous, since in them the voice of God is not heard for the upbuilding of souls.

In short, their malice is a veil to hinder them from observing the light of God; their obstinacy renders them harder than stones, so that they never suffer themselves to be subdued.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God;

Before we receive any knowledge of God's Fatherly good will for us, the blood of Christ must intercede for us and restore us to God's favor.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

We should learn that there is no light in the law, or even in the whole Word of God, without Christ who is the Sun of Righteousness.

Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.

Indeed, vanity joined with pride can be detected in the fact that, in seeking God, miserable men do not rise above themselves as they should, but measure him by the yardstick of their own carnal stupidity, and neglect sound investigation; thus out of curiosity they fly off into empty speculations. They do not therefore apprehend God as he offers himself, but imagine him as they have fashioned him in their own presumption.

The disposition of the heart is man's, but the preparation of the tongue is the Lord's." [Prov. 16:1, 9, conflated.] It is an absurd folly that miserable men take it upon themselves to act without God, when they cannot even speak except as he wills!