Quotes about God

The life begins to drain when our confidence and dependence upon God shifts to confidence and dependence upon programs

God, however, has not called us to produce fruit, only to bear it as we abide in Christ.

Everywhere on Earth, at this moment, in the new spiritual atmosphere created by the appearance of the idea of evolution, there float, in a state of extreme mutual sensitivity, love of God and faith in the world: the two essential components of the Ultra-human.

I want to share my journey because I think God wants us to share our stories with one another - to show others how what he has done in our lives. To help others who are going through the same thing. I think he gets joy in that.

What I don't think I knew when I was young was that 'losing your faith' is actually part of the plan for a lot of people - that it's actually maybe the most beautiful and graceful thing that can happen. The mystery of God can handle all of it. It can handle all of your thoughts, all of your doubts, all of your folly. It's all in the game.

To know God's name is to know God.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

We need to learn the names of God because when we know His character and His capacity, we will find rest and discover peace and power in His covenantal care of us.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Our mission is nothing less (or more) than participating with God in this grand story until he brings it to its guaranteed climax.

Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God's creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.