Quotes about God
The question is, can a human being hold on to God in the face of suffering? After all, suffering is the test of love.
— John Ortberg
It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom.
— John Ortberg
No one can see God's face" (see Exodus 33:20). What do they mean when they say that no one can see God's face? They mean that we cannot see God as he is. We are not capable of this. We inevitably project our own fallenness onto God.
— John Ortberg
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who doubts sometimes, has written that the reason so many babies keep being born is that God loves stories. Why
— John Ortberg
Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1
— John Ortberg
Earth's crammed with Heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes — The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.
— John Ortberg
Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.
— John Owen
So much as we see of the love of God, so much shall we delight in him, and no more.
— John Owen
I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them that were in hell some thousands of years before, and yet be still resolved to continue their punishment on them to all eternity.
— John Owen
The use of means for the obtaining of peace is ours; the bestowing of it is God's prerogative.
— John Owen
By nature, since the entrance of sin, no man has any communion with God. He is light, we darkness; and what communion has light with darkness? He is life, we are dead—he is love, and we are enmity; and what agreement can there be between us?
— John Owen
Not to see the wisdom of God, and the power of God, and consequently all the other holy properties of his nature, in Christ, is to be an unbeliever.
— John Owen