Quotes about God
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
There are two very important things you need to realize from this verse of Scripture. The first one is: Whatever we must receive from God must come as an act of faith, because God is a Faith-God.
— Chris Oyakhilome
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
Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.
— Stephen Kendrick
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
— Bishop TD Jakes