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God Quotes by Stephen Charnock
- It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other…
- It is the black work of an ungodly man or an atheist, that God is not in all his thoughts. What comfort can be had…
- All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
- No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some,…
- Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
- We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us.
- God often lays the sum of His amazing providences in very dismal afflictions; as the limner first puts on the dusky colors, on which he…
- God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It…
- Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.
- In regard of God, patience is a submission to His sovereignty. To endure a trial, simply because we cannot avoid or resist it, is not…
- When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had…
- God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.
- Pride is self contending with God for preeminence.
- Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!
- Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world
- Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.
- We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
More God Quotes
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- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe