Quotes about God
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
— John Donne
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
— John Henry Newman
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
— John Milton
And in their motions harmony divine so smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear listens delighted.
— John Milton
God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
— John Ortberg
There is a state of perfect peace with God to be attained under imperfect obedience.
— John Owen
It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.
— John Owen
Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.
— John Piper
The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.
— John Piper
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
— John Piper
God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.
— John Stott
Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.
— John Updike