Quotes about god
god yoga perspective
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other. Huston Smith
god christianity compass
...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions that appeared to lead away from Christianity led me deeper into it.
god writing lines
Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines. Gloria Trevi
god trying god-knows
God knows (She knows) that women try. Gloria Steinem
god children play
Perhaps we invented the gods so that we could put the blame on them. They gave us permission to eat flesh. They gave us permission to play with unclean things. It's not our fault, it's theirs. We're just their children. J. M. Coetzee
god believe son
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. H. L. Mencken
god destiny hands
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now inhabiting this earth. Hence, our destiny, with the aid of God, remains in our own hands. J. William Fulbright
gods-will
When God will, no winde but brings raine. George Herbert
god faith hope
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author. Thus I believe that there is no part of matter which is not - I do not say divisible - but actually divisible; and consequently the least particle ought to be considered as a world full of an infinity of different creatures. Georg Cantor
god wind sundials
God, who winds up our sundials ... Georg C. Lichtenberg
god ideas
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
god passion men
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
god men animal
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
god men asceticism
In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part. Friedrich Nietzsche
godly focus grace
The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty. Jerry Bridges
god spring men
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
god good-god
All roads that lead to God are good.
god art kindness
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
god teaching mean
If men act upon the teaching of the Word of God, and as proportionately men live according to the teaching and commands of the Bible, so they have in practice a sufficient psychological base. I will find you a man dealing with psychological problems on the basis of the teaching of the Word of God, even if he never heard the word psychology, or does not know what it means. Francis Schaeffer
god christian men
The command is to love him, not just to think about him, or do things for him. We are not to stop with a proper legal relationship - for example, to think of a man as legally lost, which he is, in the sight of a holy God - without thinking of him as a person. Saying this, we can suddenly see that much evangelism is not only sub-Christian, but subhuman - legalistic and impersonal.
god pain shadow
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
god way spirituality
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
god morning communication
The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepped back into the external world as though we are already raised from the dead, this is not once for all, it is a matter of moment-by-moment faith, and living moment by moment. This morning's faith will never do for this noon. The faith of this noon will never do for supper time. The faith of supper time will never do for the next morning. Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.
god jesus reality
Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross.
god christian reality
They are equal reality. They are two streams of present reality, both equally promised. The Christian dead are already with Christ now, and Christ really lives in the Christian. Christ lives in me. The Christ who was crucified, the Christ whose work is finished, the Christ who is glorified now, has promised (John 15) to bring forth fruit in the Christian, just as the sap of the vine brings forth the fruit in the branch.
god reality ideas
To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality.
god three spirituality
...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.
god christian children
Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.
god ignorance two
There are two main reasons why we may not be bringing forth the fruit we should. It may be because of ignorance, because we may never have been taught the meaning of the work of Christ for our present lives.
god mean church
So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.
god order office
There needs to be an order of office, but in every single office that is presented in the Scriptures there is the personal emphasis within that legal concept. In the Church the elder is an office-bearer. But both the preaching elders and the ruling elders are "ministers," and the word "minister" is a personal relationship, it does not speak of dominance. There is to be order in the Church, but the preaching elder or the ruling elder is to be a minister, with a loving personal relationship with those who are before him, even when they are wrong and need admonition.
god jesus mean
Here we are told that Christ really lives in me, if I have accepted Christ as my Savior. In other words, we have the words of Jesus to the thief of the cross, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise.' Christ can say, 'Today thou wilt be with me in paradise,' and mean it. To die is to be with the Lord. It is not just an idea, it is a reality. But at the same time, Christ, the same Christ who gives the promise just as definitely, that when I have accepted Christ as my savior, he lives in me.
god jesus heaven
Eternity will be wonderful, but there is one thing heaven will not contain, and that is the call, the possibility, and the privilege of living a supernatural life here and now by faith, before we meet Jesus face to face.