God Defines Himself Quotes

#1. God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

#2. Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Kenan Malik

#3. What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

John Piper

#4. Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Robert H. Schuller

#5. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. You must match your music to the kind of people God wants your church to reach ... The music you use 'positions' your church in your community. It defines who you are ... It will determine the kind of people you attract, the kind of people you keep, and the kind of people you lose.

Rick Warren

#7. We "talk" relationship but we "live" religion, with unsatisfying results. Christianity defines itself, first and foremost, as a relationship with God. Even though this is true, our human nature tends toward living a relationship with God as if it were a religion

Mark Cowper-Smith

#8. Knowing your purpose simplifies your life. It defines what you do and what you don't do. Your purpose becomes the standard you use to evaluate which activities are essential and which aren't. You simply ask, "Does this activity help me fulfill one of God's purposes for my life?

Rick Warren

#9. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Frank Herbert

#10. A woman was and is one of God's most magnificent creations. As a matter of fact, she was His grand finale. After He fashioned Eve, creation was complete and He took a rest! God has placed in our hearts a love for beauty and a desire to be beautiful - as He defines it.

Sharon Jaynes

#11. The word 'God' defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness, a dimensionless proximity of presence. It is our life wholly transformed into relation.

Christos Yannaras

#12. Jesus and the Kingdom of God are distinct but inseparable. It is Jesus, the King of God's Kingdom, who defines the Kingdom and demonstrates its principles and its power.

Kirby Clements Senior

#13. Today, we have many ways of defining success in life. Some define it as being a sports hero, others as being wealthy, others as being popular and well liked, and still others as being happy. How does God define success? He defines it as being spiritually mature!

Dr. Todd M. Fink

#14. O friend! hope for Him whilst you live, know whilst you live,
understand whilst you live: for in life deliverance abides.
If your bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?

Kabir

#15. The dephness of my skin is heriditory.
the hugh of my skin is what defines me.
the color of my skin is what God gave me.
for the radience of my skin, I am not ashamed.
yes, i am black, dark and beautiful.
and underneath this mask,
i feel comfortable in my own skin.

Angela Khristin Brown

#16. T]here is no other purpose of my existence except to know, love and get closer to God. This is the one and only reason why I was created. And this is the most essential realization, as it defines everything else I do or believe. It defines all things around me, and everything I experience in life.

Yasmin Mogahed

#17. While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Tony Campolo

#18. Ultimately, the body is just a shell; it is the soul which defines the man or woman, god or goddess.

P.C. Cast

#19. Her milk sprayed across the skies and formed what he today know as the Milky Way.

Birgit Amadori

#20. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.

Loretta Young

#21. Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. It was like being in love with the sun: brilliant and intoxicating to be near, but impossible to keep to oneself.

Alma Katsu

#23. Why do fairy tales exist, and why do movies exist? Why do novels exist? There has to be a reason for it; otherwise, none of these things would be there.

Tim O'Brien

#24. Remember that, as George Whitefield said, man is immortal till his work is done (though God alone defines the work), and get on with what you know to be God's task for you here and now.

J.I. Packer

#25. Sometimes I wonder - if I were drop-dead handsome, and every woman I met actually dropped dead, would I ever get tired of it?

Robert Breault

#26. Killing in the name of religion defines someone who is ignorant and actually void of religion. God does not condone terror. To kill innocent people to make a political statement is like shooting a dove to say hunting is wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#27. If we are co-eternal with God, then it is not God's creation of the human out of nothing that defines our essential relationship to him. It is His freely made choice to inaugurate and sustain loving relationships, and our choice to reciprocate, that are at the core of our relationship to the Divine.

Terryl L. Givens

#28. Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

#29. And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are called to live in peace. - Colossians 3:15

Gary Chapman

#30. I'm worried that God ain't as expected by men.

Toba Beta

#31. This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.

Michael W. Goheen

#32. God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Francis Chan