Quotes about God

I love the idea of feeding on God's faithfulness. Might we say, in fact, that the more we feed on God's faithfulness, the fatter of faith we become? How's that for a diet reversal? I'm thrilled to know we can binge on God without guilt.

God can delight in our courage to pray big prayers without necessarily giving us what we ask. Said another way, God can say yes to the heart of our prayer without saying yes to the request of our prayer. He will approve of the petitioner even when, for whatever reason, He can't approve the petition. I'm convinced God is more pleased

Life vastly simplifies, and satisfaction greatly amplifies, when we begin to realize our awesome roles. God is God. From our perspective, it's all about Him. He is the center of the universe. We seek to please Him. He seeks to perfect us—and life works. Not without pain, but definitely with purpose.

1. We read or hear God's Word. 2. We choose to receive it, thereby inhaling it like a fresh breath of faith. 3. We speak it aloud at opportune times, even just to ourselves, thereby exhaling that spirit of faith over our very circumstances.

How great is Your goodness that You have stored up for those who fear You and accomplished in the sight of everyone. Psalm 31:19

All the nouns—the people, places, and things—I've believed were inseparable from who I was have been strategically targeted by God. Over the years, He has sought to supplant them with Christ alone. They weren't cast aside as worthless any more than the land was relegated to meaninglessness for the people of God. They had their role, but they simply weren't Jesus.

God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion.

This is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden. 1 John 5:3

He is, after all, the author, eternal possessor, initiator, and giver of love. He cannot be destroyed or made less by unrequited love, but to disassociate Him from the pain and grief associated with love is to carve a convenient idol out of wood or stone bearing no resemblance to the God of the Bible. Within those pages, we find a God who cannot be changed by man but can be affected by man. His immutability does not deplete or delete His affections.

Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death… . He was approved, having pleased God. Hebrews 11:5

What does the Scripture say? " Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him for righteousness." Romans 4:3

We are ambassadors for Christ; certain that God is appealing through us, we plead on Christ's behalf: "Be reconciled to God." 2 Corinthians 5:20