Goodness Of God Quotes - Page 2

• Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

  Martin Luther

  Wagers, Unseen, Goodness

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• There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Goodness, Creatures

  St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1589, Moody Publishers

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• In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Faith, Night, Challenges

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• Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Light, Giving, Recognition

  Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256

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• Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things need to be attacked with joy, with peace, with love and grace, with mercy, with kindness and the goodness of God.

  Graham Cooke

  Kindness, Joy, Grace

  FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jul 05, 2011

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• Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries of the divine mercy over which the heavens are astounded. Let our judgment of souls cease, for God's mercy upon them is extraordinary.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Faith, Inspiration, Heaven

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• Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him for yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

  Judah Smith

  Jesus, Self, People

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.

  Juliana Berners

  Heart, Soul And Body, Skins

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• He created the flavors! He created the colors. He created it all, and he did it all out of the overflow of his perfections. It’s not like he was thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve got some fajita flavoring over here. I know: let’s put it on the cow and the chicken.’ He created the avocado to have a certain flavor; he created the skirt steak, the fillet, and the tenderloin to have certain flavors. That was God’s doing. So every aspect of creation, from the largest galaxy to the tiniest burst of flavor in food or drink or seasoning, radiates the goodness of God.

  Matt Chandler

  Thinking, Color, Perfection

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• We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Eye, Wine

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1856). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.226

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• Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

  Ann Voskamp

  Pain, Giving, World

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.197, Zondervan

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• I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

  John Woolman

  Writing, Years, Age

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Party, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

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• Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

  Henry Adams

  Sweet, Morning, Thank God

  Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

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• Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.

  Judah Smith

  People, Shapes, Opinion

  Judah Smith (2014). “Jesus Is Student Edition: Discovering Who He Is Changes Who You Are”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

  Hosea Ballou

  Children, Grief, Compassion

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• The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Kindness

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• What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Water, Dew, Scent

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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• ... believing in a God whom we cannot but regard as evil, and then, in mere terrified flattery calling Him 'good' and worshipping him is a still greater danger... The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of scripture is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Thinking, Two

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• To have an open self is to provide a free channel for the infinite goodness of God. To have an open self is to keep yourself aware, alert and sensitive to the beauty and wonder of life. God's love will flow through you into the world when you are open. You enlarge the dimensions of your life when you keep yourself open to the highest and best. The key to God's infinite riches is within you; open yourself and you will receive.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Keys, Self, Riches

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• There are still people who insist that we have to preach on repentance. Well, I disagree! I think we should do it God’s way – preach the goodness of God and allow the goodness of God to lead people to repentance. Such repentance will be true repentance. It will not be motivated by the fear of judgment and indignation. It will be a genuine repentance that is motivated by His grace, unconditional love and compassion. After all, our ability to love God stems from our first tasting His love for us.

  Joseph Prince

  Unconditional Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.

  Julian of Norwich

  Woe, Goodness

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• There is a power in the soul, quite separate from the intellect, which sweeps away or recognizes the marvelous, by which God is felt. Faith stands serenely far above the reach of the atheism of science. It does not rest on the wonderful, but on the eternal wisdom and goodness of God. The revelation of the Son was to proclaim a Father, not a mystery. No science can sweep away the everlasting love which the heart feels, and which the intellect does not even pretend to judge or recognize.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Father, Heart, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 220, 1895.

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• Our obedience to God’s commandments comes as a natural outgrowth of our endless love and gratitude for the goodness of God.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Endless Love, Obedience

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