Quotes about God

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

In spite of how we know the story unfolded, God included mankind in His conclusion that all He created was good.

Jesus said, "I am the vine; you are the branches." All you gotta do is let the life that flows through the vine, flow into the branch—you. You don't have to do anything. You've just got to get out of the way and stop doing all the things that keep God from doing what He wants to do in your life. What Paul means by "walk by the Spirit" is essentially "live in dependence on God's Spirit.

Attentive reading of God's Word will set you up for frequent Holy Spirit warnings as He uses Scripture to set off alarms of danger in your life. As you grow spiritually, you may discover direct "prompts" God's Spirit gives, but they will always be in harmony with what God says in His Word.

Preferring the comforting messages of certain attributes of God, our lives have become a trifling with His holiness. We desperately need to regain this view of the highness and the holiness of God. His holiness is the ultimate clarity.

God's love is not a pampering love. God's love is a perfecting love. God does not get up every day trying to figure how He can plant a bigger smile on your face. God is in the process of growing us and changing us. His love is a transforming love.

All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

When we experience God for who He really is, we suddenly see ourselves for who we are.

Repentance. Not a onetime event for the forgiveness of sin and gift of eternal life but a lifetime pattern of humility before a holy God.

How sad to see a worthless man who claims to know God confirm by running back to the road of self-righteousness that he never met Him.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.