#god

Let us think often that our only business in this life is to please God. Perhaps all besides is but folly and vanity. ↗

— Brother Lawrence

#practice-presence-of-god #business

What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man. ↗

— Yann Martel

#god #life

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#god #jesus #business

It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God. ↗

— Hafiz

#life-lessons #love #master-poet #poetry #life

I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks. ↗

— Paul Rudnick

#grand-canyon #michelangelo #snacks #death

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#love

God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98) ↗

— Thomas C. Oden

#holiness #love #love

Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time. ↗

— Tina Smith

#love #wisdom #wise #wolf-sirens #love

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#grace #law #legalism #change

A God who is trying to convince people that He is a God is not a God! He is just a clown disguised as a God! No supreme power can be in need of convincing men! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#men