God Quotes - Page 53

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.

Sin is a revolt against God.

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, “Repent! Or perish!

[Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.

Before one can know what is right and wrong,he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.

We don’t need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin—because God has provided the cure.

Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God . . .The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.

God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin.

Sin is rebellion against God.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy—it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.

God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.

At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!

We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.

Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!

God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.

We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always” [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.

There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].

God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

Every law that God has given has been for man’s benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.

God is able to do what we can’t do.

God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.

Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.

People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.

For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.

When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.

God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.

Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: “Prepare to meet your God.

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.

Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!

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