Quotes About Responding To God

#1. Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.

J.I. Packer

#2. The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?

John Ashbery

#3. Enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

Emily Carr

#4. To hope until hope creates from its very own wreck the thing it contemplates.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. One of the earliest resurrection scenes in the Bible is that of Thomas demanding evidence - he wanted to see, to touch, to prove. Those who question and probe and debate are heirs of the apostles just as much as the most fervent of believers.

Jon Meacham

#6. Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image, even our understanding of God have all been shaped by the destructive values and dehumanizing structures of the world's brokenness.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#7. There is an endless kingdom to be enjoyed, and everlasting life to be given us, that we may live in that kingdom forever.

John Bunyan

#8. There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. One final silly face.
One blessed responding laugh.
Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....

William Goldman

#10. Worship is just responding to the greatness of God.

Bob Rice

#11. God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.

Miroslav Volf

#12. I literally touched down in Kosovo and the president, prime minister and mayor were waiting for me to get off the plane. Apparently that's unheard of. They don't wait for nobody.

Rita Ora

#13. We want a god alright, but we humanize him enough to force him to be at our beck-and-call verses responding to the utter magnificence of His call.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. When we gather, we are responding to a call to worship; that call is an echo and renewal of the call of creation to be God's image bearers for the world, and we fulfill the mission of being God's image bearers by undertaking the work of culture making.

James K.A. Smith

#15. Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy ... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Harold S. Kushner

#16. In my present life from day to day, I attempt to improve my understanding of God by responding to Him in three basic ways: by moving outwards into positive action, by exercising my ability to choose positive thoughts, and by allowing myself to be drawn inwards to positive being.

A.A. World Services Inc.

#17. She took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

George Eliot

#18. The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

Leslie Ludy

#19. If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

Saint Augustine

#20. [Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

Joan Of Arc

#21. That All-That-Isness that is responding to your vibration is that which you call God.

Esther Hicks

#22. If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton

#23. Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.

Alvin Dark

#24. A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

China Mieville

#25. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.

Preston Sprinkle

#26. Love is my inner strength and my power.

Debasish Mridha

#27. God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Margaret Feinberg