Top 1200 God First Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

In defiance of all the tortue, of all the might, of all the malice of the world, the liberal man will ever be rich; for God's providence is his estate, God's wisdom and power are his defence, God's love and favor are his reward, and God's word is his security.

True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.

The word of God is more than enough for the people of God to live their lives to the glory of God

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

If there is a God, he is within. You don't ask God to give you things, you depend on God for your inner theme.

If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

Whatever happened to God's justice? I am convinced that God exist and God is one asshole.

I don’t think God has a gender. I don’t think God hates gays or Democrats, and I don’t think you have to be Born Again to find your way to Heaven. I believe God expects us to care for one another, even those who are different. God wants us to be good stewards of this planet, and that means not wasting or violating its resources. Most of all, it means not blowing it up. Especially not in God’s name.

All gifts from God are intended to direct our attention to God and create fresh affection for God.

Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

Nothing is impossible for the people of God who trust in the power of God to accomplish the will of God.

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

Regardless of where you are tonight, God is with you. God is wooing you. God wants you to experience Him. Whatever you are going through today, you can find His joy and peace. However distant your dreams may seem, God is working things out, and today is an important part of that process.

It is important that we know and hear God's voice, for the words of God reveal the will of God.

Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly. Any religion is a shadow of God. But the shadows of God are not God.

Revival is when God's people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.

Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Life is an endless experience of God's. God doesn't even exist in nirvana, yet God exists in all other realms.

There are going to be tears in Heaven, because God is going to have to wipe them away. No doubt many of us will cry when we first arrive there and realize just how much our many mistakes have cost and lost. But God will wipe away all these tears, and comfort and encourage us and inspire us for the future, so we can forget the past. There will be tears, but thank God He will wipe them away with His joy. Then there will be no more tears and no more years, only a happy eternity!

Most of the time I ask, "Why have I forsaken God?" I look at myself and ask that question when probably the better question is to say, "Where are you God, and I'll let you in." Instead of thinking that you've abandoned God, push yourself in the other direction like, "God, how can I get closer?"

God bless America, God Save the Queen, God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

When the Holy Spirit comes to live within you, He will come with the ability to produce righteousness. Righteousness is the nature of God, which when imparted to the human spirit, produces the rightness of God in the human spirit. It gives man right standing with God; it gives him the ability to stand in the presence of God without a sense of guilt, inferiority or condemnation. It means rightness in God. The righteousness of God is wrought in you.

Imagine for a moment that you were God. Not God as a man or woman, but God as the awareness of all life. To be that in physical form is to be an enlightened person.

I've come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn't.

The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and its scriptures but also, by clear implication, with philosophical and political issues that were 'out there' at the time. The thing is that for Paul this is all part of the same larger, whole vision of God and God's purposes. Watching how everything comes together is an intellectual treat of the first order - as well as a spiritual and practical challenge to me personally and to the church.

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. I will always seek God. Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We're all god.

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.

Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

God lays claim to all firsts. So when you keep for yourself something that belongs to God you are desecrating what is to be consecrated to God.

The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

God is not a personality outside of you. What God is, is inextricably part of what you are. God is the dimension of depth within you.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.

My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.

We reverence God and we hallow God's name when our life is such that it brings honor to God and attracts others to Him.

Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

God is seen as a male whose first creation was another man, Adam, whom we are told was made in his image and likeness.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

With God, I can do all things! But with God and you, and the people who you can interest, by the grace of God, we're gonna cover the world!

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.

Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.