#god

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christianity #god #heart #jesus #st-augustine

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time. ↗

— Francis Chan

#god #jesus #needs #pastor #wants

My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. ↗

— Mary (mother of Jesus)

#god #joy #spirit #jesus

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#nihilism #tyler-durden #enemy

I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#wrong

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#justice #christianity

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #respect

God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#god #scripture

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#christianity #god #pride #christianity

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture! ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#scripture