Quotes
Quotes about God
And circumstance, that unspiritual god, And miscreator, makes and helps along Our coming evils, with a critch-like rod, Whose touch turns hope to dust--the dust we all have trod.
God made the country, and man made the town.
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
God loveth the clean.
I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
We may not be what we want to be, but thank God we are not what we used to be.
It is wonderful what God can do with a broken heart, if He gets all the pieces.
Don't pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.
Jesus is the man God intended all humans to be.
Open your mind to God's wisdom, open your soul to God's peace, open your heart to God's love and all three will stay with you forever.
Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway.
When the devil starts messing, God starts blessing.
God doesn't call people who are qualified. He calls people who are willing, and then He qualifies them.
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.
God is God, and I'm not.
God loves you right where you are but he doesn't want to leave you there.
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume . . . it is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
I can get more out of God by believing Him for one minute than by shouting at Him all night.
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
One with God is a majority.
God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.
