Quotes about God

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.

They [Old Testament] taught me about Life with God: not how it is supposed to work, but how it actually does work.

What we have to go through to commit sin distances us from God—we change in the very act of rebellion—and there is no guarantee we will ever come back. You ask me about forgiveness now, but will you even want it later, especially if it involves repentance?

It seems that God arranged the most humiliating circumstances possible for His entrance, as if to avoid any charge of favoritism.

Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.

From Jesus I learn that God is on the side of the sufferer.

Somehow, that "faith" was what God valued, and it soon became clear that faith was the best way for humans to express a love for God.

Does prayer change God or change me?

Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

Grace dispensers give out of their own bounty, in gratitude (a word with the same root as grace) for what we have received from God. We serve others not with some hidden scheme of making converts, rather to contribute to the common good, to help humans flourish as God intended.

Jesus did not eliminate evil; he revealed a God willing, at immense cost, to forgive it and to heal its damage.