Quotes about God

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul... How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!

Oh for holiness! Oh for more of God in my soul! Oh this pleasing pain! It makes my soul press after God.

Oh, if ever I get to heaven, it will be because God will, and nothing else; for I never did any thing of myself, but get away from God!

Alas, that so much of my precious time is spent with so little of God.

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.

My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.

This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.

This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.