Quotes about God

God's will and desire—His pleasure—is that we love Him. We cannot please God unless we love Him. We cannot love Him unless we know Him, and we cannot know Him unless we have faith in Him.

Marriage is two imperfect people committing themselves to a perfect institution, by making perfect vows from imperfect lips before a perfect God.

God is the source and giver of our prosperity: "But remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to produce wealth" (Deut. 8:18a).

There is no man on the face of the earth who can satisfy the deepest longings of a woman's heart--God made us in such a way that we can never be truly satisfied with anything or anyone less than Himself

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.

The fact is, we will all be broken—sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness—we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.

Everything in your spiritual life depends on the sort of God you worship. Because the character of the worshiper will always be molded by the character of what he worships: If it is a cruel and revengeful God, the worshiper will be the same, but if it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be transformed slowly, wonderfully, into this likeness.1

We want God to fix all our problems. God says instead, "I have a purpose for your problems. I want to use your problems to change you and to reveal My grace and power to the world." That is the Truth—and the Truth will set you free.

The fact that there are some things (many things!) that God knows that we don't is what makes Him God and us human.

It doesn't cause me to doubt God's existence, but it does force me to admit there's a lot about God I don't understand.