Quotes about God

We think, How much better life would be if a certain situation or a relationship were different! Meanwhile, God says that what needs change most is us! He does not just work to fix situations and relationships; he is intent on rescuing us from ourselves. We are the focus of his loving, lifelong work of change.

Remember, your relationships have not been designed by God as vehicles for human happiness, but as instruments of redemption.

The decision to forgive is first a heart transaction between you and God. It is a willingness to give up your desire to hold onto (and in some way punish the person for) his offense against you. Instead, you entrust the person and the offense to God, believing that he is righteous and just. You make a decision to respond to this person with an attitude of grace and forgiveness.

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

We are fallen dreamers, who dream of better worlds than the one in which we live. But the dreams we envision are often more about our own agenda than they are about our Lord's. Though we may not be aware of it, we are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord. The change he is working on is not the change we dream about. We dream about change in it—a person or circumstance—but God is working in the midst of it to change us.

Human marriage is only an illustration of our union with Christ. God ordained marriage to help us understand what it means to be in relationship with him.

Does it surprise you that God presents himself as a model for human community?

The order is essential: I am a new creation, accepted, adopted, and free; therefore I want to please God.

Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.

Sin's self-centeredness cuts us off from God and others

That evening in the grocery store parking lot, my problem was not just that I didn't love my family as I should. My problem was that I didn't love God as I should.

God will dwell in community with his people so that they can know community with one another