God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys, feels, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may. In making Himself known to us He stays by the familiar pattern of personality. He communicates with us through the avenues of our minds, our wills and our emotions. The continuous and unembarrassed interchange of love and thought between God and the soul of the redeemed man is the throbbing heart of the New Testament.
God’s Character
A.W. Tozer
We would think of God, then, as maintaining the unity of His uncreated Being throughout all His works and His years, as ever saying not only, “I did,” and “I will do,” but also “I do” and “I am doing.” A robust faith requires that we grasp this truth firmly, yet we know how seldom such a thought enters our minds.
Grahame Cooke
I adore the reality of God’s emotions! He’s full of them. Take His unchanging, perfect love, or joy or compassion. Love, joy and compassion are emotions!
Steven Furtick
Is it possible that when we’re not getting the affirmation or confirmation we desire, it’s because God doesn’t want our faith to rest in affirmation we can feel? In these times could it be that He’s at work on a deeper level, teaching us to rely on His character rather than our performance?
Kris Vallotton
God… lives outside the laws of physics, and… is omnipresent everywhere at once, working through different gifts and various people all at the same time. The truth is that God could be having an intimate conversation with you while He is correcting me, rejoicing with someone who just got saved, and being angry with a murderer who took the life of someone—all at the same time! God can have a personal relationship with 7.7 billion people on the planet, carry on a conversation with all of them at the same time and still have the bandwidth to create another universe . . . all simultaneously. God is not human; He is God.
R. C. Sproul
He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
Charles Finney
When God has especially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall receive it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an ‘if,’ and say, ‘Lord, if it be Thy will, give me Thy Holy Spirit.’ This is to insult God. To put an ‘if’ in God’s promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere. It is like saying, ‘O God, if Thou art in earnest in making these promises, grant us the blessing we pray for.’
William Law
[Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven.
Corrie Ten Boom
Starting a series of previous Corrie Ten Boom Quotes from the DCQ archives.
I am finding much comfort in her writings during the season of global isolation in 2020
Often I have heard people say, “How good God is! We prayed that it would not rain for our church picnic, and look at the lovely weather!” Yes, God is good when He sends good weather. But God was also good when He allowed my sister, Betsie, to starve to death before my eyes in a German concentration camp. I remember one occasion when I was very discouraged there. Everything around us was dark, and there was darkness in my heart. I remember telling Betsie that I thought God had forgotten us. “No, Corrie,” said Betsie, “He has not forgotten us. Remember His Word: “For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him.” Corrie concludes, “There is an ocean of God’s love available – there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love – whatever the circumstances.”
Thomas Watson
If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.