Quotes about God

I understand God's patience with the wicked, but I do wonder how He can be so patient with the pious. —GEORGE MACDONALD

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

We don't need to travel to find Christ. Christ has already traveled to find us. God is not the one whose back is turned. It is we who, for whatever reason, get our backs up or don't turn back to God.

To please God, to be pleasing to God, is to "walk with Light," to walk with God in joy, praise, holiness, and humility as image-bearers of the Light.

We are convinced that believing in God is worthwhile. We thereby want to express the conviction that it is not death that has the last word but life; it is not the absurd but the full meaning in life that wins the day.

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God.

May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

You are free to reject God. Make sure that you're really rejecting God, not some caricature of God that the church has shown you. But I, one, respect a God who not only allows us to reject Him but includes the arguments we can use against Him in the Bible. I respect that.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

To enter upon the marriage union is one of the most deeply important events of life. It cannot be too prayerfully treated. Our happiness, our usefulness, our living for God or for ourselves afterwards, are often most intimately connected with our choice. Therefore, in the most prayerful manner, this choice should be made.

God does not use perfect men; He uses men. And so, when I say that we need to be conformed to the image of Christ, we also need to recognize that God has always used men lacking something somewhere.