Quotes about God

God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity.

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section

the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.

God sometimes bestows his bounty more   profusely, and, at other times, more sparingly, upon his children,   according as he sees it to be most for their good;

set before them the coming of Christ, who was both the foundation of the covenant and the bond of mutual communion between God and the people. Therefore

Thus even the most wicked are an example to us that throughout the world the knowledge of God has some power in the hearts of all people.

So long as we are adopted by God in Christ, we are destined for slaughter. If

When that which professes to be the Word of God is acknowledged to be so, no person, unless devoid of common sense and the feelings of a man, will have the desperate hardihood to refuse credit to the speaker.

luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God

Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.