Quotes About Adoption By God

#1. God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. The gospel doesn't erase our past, but it drastically changes our future with a living hope. The gospel gives us the opportunity to be healed and to know God as our Abba Father. With our adoption into God's family comes a radically new life.

Johnny Carr

#3. Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

J.I. Packer

#4. Forgiveness isn't an end in itself. The point of forgiveness is to remove the barrier that stands between us and God so that He can give us His Spirit and bring us into His everlasting family.

Darrell Bock

#5. Since we have had this baby with us, I have never again wondering why I never got pregnant. There is no doubt in my mind that God, in His wonderful way, was saving us to be the parents of this wonderful little boy.

Kathleen Silber

#6. It is one thing to see the kingdom of God, and another thing to enter into it. We must have a change of heart to see the kingdom of God, and subscribe the articles of adoption to enter therein.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#7. We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has exalted the Lord Jesus sounds ludicrous and wild
yet that, and nothing less than that, is what our adoption means.

J.I. Packer

#8. To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit. . .

John Calvin

#9. We did nothing to earn our adoption into God's family, and we can do nothing to lose it either.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#10. Without the Fatherhood of God driving our manhood, we become "mad scientists" as we destructively experiment with those in our charge. But because of Jesus there is hope...Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father.

Eric Mason

#11. A son or daughter in any human family is either born to or adopted by the parents. By definition, a child can't be both. But with God we're both born of Him and adopted by Him.

Jerry Bridges

#12. If Children are God's Gift then adopted are God's child.

Revathi Sankaran

#13. Jesus was born under the law of God and took on himself the condemnation we deserved for our sin. Now the full legal rights of adoption are given to us who are in Christ by faith.

C. John Miller

#14. God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

Thomas Watson

#15. To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

Louie Giglio

#16. Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

Mariska Hargitay

#17. There's nothing you can do God's business is adoption, Child, And He has chosen you.

Beth Moore

#18. If God is calling you to adopt, He will accomplish it. If God is leading you to care for the fatherless across the globe in some way other than adoption, He will accomplish it.

Rick Morton

#19. It's because when God adopts you into His family, you belong to Him. He stamps His name on you. A name that comes with His protection. And His birthright, which is eternity and the power to live with joy on this earth.

Susan May Warren

#20. I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

C.S. Lewis

#21. he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.

John Calvin

#22. Spiritual adoption is the excellency and apex of God's salvation.

Joel Beeke

#23. Listen to your hearts, parents! You are the expert when it comes to knowing your child. I love the Scripture that says we are to let the peace of God rule in our hearts ... In other words, peace in your heart is to be like an umpire calling the shots. When in doubt
DON'T!

Sherrie Eldridge

#24. The Jews were continually warned not to look for the reason for their adoption elsewhere than in God's free favor. He had seen fit to choose them; this alone was the source of their security.

John Calvin

#25. Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness - adoption into His family - fellowship with His people - freedom from the penalty of sin - liberation from the power of sin.

Billy Graham

#26. Abortion is an act of desperation. It's an awful solution to a situation that God can work out for good through adoption.

Bob Carlisle

#27. Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Mother Teresa

#28. You will find it a stronghold in the day of trial to plead your adoption. You have no rights as a subject, you have forfeited them by your treason; but nothing can forfeit a child's right to a father's protection.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#29. Even beautiful things such as forgiveness, clear conscience, joy in life, and adoption into the family of God are all benefits of being a Christian, but not the ultimate goal.

Jefferson Bethke

#30. I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.

Tim Tebow

#31. I wanted to drop the emotional hammer on Steph and tell her my thought: that I would very much like for her to try to find her birth mother before I die, so that I might meet her and say, "Your brought to life an exceptional human being who God divined my sister. And it was indeed divine. Thank you.

Susan Spencer-Wendel