Quotes about God

God does not slack his promises because of our sins... or hasten them because of our righteousness and merits. He pays no attention to either.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness.

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are not God`s chosen people.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

It is not our work, but God's gift, that we now hate ourselves and our sinful lusts and follow after love.

The very simple meaning of what Moses says, therefore, is this: everything that is, was created by God.

The Gospel is true because it deprives men of all glory, wisdom, and righteousness and turns over all honor to the Creator alone. It is safer to attribute too much glory unto God than unto man.

Thus God's work and His eyes are in the depths, but man's only in the height.

Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.

God is wrath and God is mercy. The State is the instrument of his wrath, the Church of his mercy