Quotes about God
Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
— Billy Graham
We keep telling God our opinions; He keeps asking us about our hearts. We'll grow the most when we have the right conversations.
— Bob Goff
Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
— CS Lewis
The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
— CS Lewis
To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God.
— CS Lewis
From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
— CS Lewis
The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination.
— CS Lewis
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
— Charles Spurgeon
God is so boundlessly pleased with Jesus that in him he is altogether well pleased with us.
— Charles Spurgeon
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
— Christopher West
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
— DH Lawrence
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
— Dallas Willard