God plants our spiritual giftings deep, so it will take years to claim them, but that gives Him time to refine His message in our hearts.
I can always pray to God with confidence because my righteous state is a gift given through grace in faith on the cross by Jesus!
The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.
God's love grounds me while His mystery confounds me. He is a personal yet all-powerful; in me yet around me; creates me yet dies for me.
Getting to a place where we realize that we have nothing and can achieve nothing without God enables us to rely solely on Him for everything!
We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us.
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...
Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.
The written revelation of God is in the world, but men heed it not. Instead, they look for knowledge where it is not to be found.
God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to (1794)]
4.45 CREATION Man’s creation – with use clearly decreases, It but fulfillment of want and desire please; God’s Creation – but with use increases, It the fulfillment of love, truly never ceases. [271] - 4
To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful than their own: Convert. Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)
We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
The enemy came to steel,destroy and kill our leader, our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that.
If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life. He deserves to be at the center of your life.
The remnant of the human species must understand that faith was the narcotic that fueled the insanity of religion. Conclusion: Invisible love is wasted. Invisible evidence is worthless. Invisible God is non-existent.
Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
