Top 1200 God With Us Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.

God prunes us when He is about to take us into a new season of growth and expansion.

It is a Mormon truism that is current among us and we all accept it, that as man is God once was and as God is man may become. That does not signify that man will become God. I am sorry to say, and yet it is a truth, that not many men will become what God is, simply because they will not pay the price, because they are not willing to live up to the requirements; and still all men may, if they will, become what God is, but only those who are heirs of the celestial glory shall ever be possible candidates, to become what God is.

We don't choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.

If God did not want us to understand the book of Revelation, He would not have given it to us at all.

Before it's too late, and time is running out, let us turn from trust in the chain reactions of exploding atoms to faith of the chain reaction of God's love. Love - love of God and fellow men. That is God's formula for peace.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

We should thank God for being with us, not ask Him to be with us (this is always given!).

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.

If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

All of us have weaknesses, but we also have strengths. God’s Spirit has gifted each of us for the good of the church.

Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.

What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

Works indeed are good, and God strictly requires them of us, but they do not make us holy.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.

Let us tread upon this path to this supreme Godhead practically and step by step, beginning from the lowest sphere, to arrive at the true realization of God in ourselves. Let us praise the happy man who will reach this still in his earthly existence. Us banish fear of the pains, for all of us will reach this goal.

For all of us who listen, in the stillness of our hearts, God enlightens us and offers to lead the way.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.

The modern world lies under a pervasive sense of anguish, of being abandoned, or at least experiencing God as absent. Yet events that seem to turn our lives upside down and inside out are part of God's redemptive plan, not only for us, but for the world in which we live. God may be preparing a great awakening for the world, if God can find enough people to cooperate in this mysterious plan.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

God has a prepared path for us to follow. We just have to read the omens he has left for us.

God doesn't give us just enough. God gives us more than enough: more bread and fish than we can eat, more love than we dared to ask for.

If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.

In ourselves, we are sinners, and yet through faith we are righteous by the imputation of God. For we trust him who promises to deliver us, and in the meantime struggle so that sin may not overwhelm us, but that we may stand up to it until he finally take it away from us.

We take a lot of things for granted in our lives, such as gravity, air, daylight and time. Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant non-renewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully; intentionally, wisely and productively.

Because God loves us, he lets us know exactly how to have access to him.

The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God’s gifts!

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

God sometimes gives us what we want so we'll learn to trust Him to give us what we need.

Yes, fasting is not merely a commandment from God but a godly gift, a grace and a blessing. God the creator of our body and soul knows of our need to fast for its benefit for our spiritual life, development and our eternity. He granted us the knowledge and manner of fasting. As a kind Father and a wise Teacher, He has recommended fasting for us.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God.

In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others.

If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.