Quotes about God
It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.
— Lysa TerKeurst
When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.
— St. Augustine
The preachers commission is to declare the whole counsel of God; but the cross is the center of that counsel.
— JI Packer
Colossians 1:16 tells us that everything was created FOR God... don't we live instead as though God is created for US, to do OUR bidding, to bless US, and to take care of OUR loved ones?
— Francis Chan
The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved.
— Pope Benedict XVI
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.
— Rob Bell
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
— St. Augustine
For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.
— St. Augustine
He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.
— Francis de Sales
In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
— Shane Claiborne