Who God Is Quotes (page 5)

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• psychology
• lesson
• god

It was Dostoevsky, once again, who drew from the French Revolution and its seeming hatred of the Church the lesson that "revolution must necessarily begin with atheism." That is absolutely true. But the world had never before known a godlessness as organized, militarized, and tenaciously malevolent as that practiced by Marxism. Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• beautiful
• god
• learning

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. Vincent Van Gogh

• proverbs
• evening
• love

The world will brin its condemnation. They may even put their sword behind it. But we know that the highest courst has already ruled in our favor. 'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31) No one successfully If they reject us, he accepts us. If they hate us, he loves us. If they imprison us, he sets our spirits free. If they afflict us, he refines us by the fire. If they kill us, he makes it a passage to paradise. They cannot defeat us. Christ has died. Christ has risen. We... John Piper

• god
• mercy
• rely

He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit John Calvin

• god
• thinking
• writing

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]. Kurt Vonnegut

• god
• hope
• passion

So Jesus in the throes of his Passion is an image of hope: God is on the side of those who suffer. Joseph Ratzinger

• friends
• being love
• love

My friends, God is necessary for me if only because he is the one being who can be loved eternally. Fyodor Dostoevsky

• prayer
• father
• hand

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

• god
• choose
• chooses

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless. Plato

• god
• him
• dead

Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long. Elias Canetti

• god
• gods
• attributes

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is. William Ames

• god
• am
• rejoice

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it. Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed. Orson Scott Card

• manly
• bible
• god

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere? "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C. S. Lewis

• god
• know
• something

We can never know who or what we are till we know at least something of what God is. Aiden Wilson Tozer

• manly
• words
• long love

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word 'love' and look on things as if man were the centre of them. C. S. Lewis