Quotes about God

The Bible wasn't meant to be read; it was meant to be prayed. Start reading, and God will start speaking. And that's when you need to stop reading and start praying.

This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Our prayers don't die when we do. God answers them forever.

Your dream is more than a dream. It's a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn't call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

So how do we conserve the momentum of God's blessing? At the risk of sounding like a memorandum issued by the department of redundancy department, the only way to maintain momentum is to flip the blessing. If we fail to flip the blessing, we hit the point of diminishing return. Eventually, we lose all spiritual momentum and wonder why. I'll tell you exactly why: God doesn't bless selfishness.

To believe that God speaks only through the Bible is to handcuff the God of the Bible as the Bible has revealed Him to us. Yes, Scripture provides our checks and balances.

Potential is God's gift to us, and what we do with it is our gift to God.

Catholic priest Desiderius Erasmus coined the Latin phrase vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. Translation: "Bidden or not bidden, God is here.

what God loves more than anything else is childlike faith. It's our childlike faith, not our theological vocabulary, that moves the heart of our heavenly Father. It's simple childlike trust. It's the bedrock belief that God is bigger than our problem, bigger than our mistake, bigger than our dream.

When we hit our knees, we pick a fight with the enemy. We are immediately transported to the front lines of the kingdom, where we wage war with principalities and powers. That is where the battle is won or lost - on our knees! And when we hit our knees, God fights our battles for us.

Even when you have a setback, God has already prepared your comeback. The God who works all things together for good will leverage every experience, every skill, every mistake, and every bit of knowledge you have acquired.