God Quotes

Sin is rebellion against God.

~ Billy Graham

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

~ Billy Graham

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.

~ Billy Graham

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

~ Billy Graham

Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,and give us a new power to overcome that sin.

~ Billy Graham

Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].

~ Billy Graham

We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.

~ Billy Graham

We don’t need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin—because God has provided the cure.

~ Billy Graham

Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God . . .The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.

~ Billy Graham

Sin is a revolt against God.

~ Billy Graham

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, “Repent! Or perish!

~ Billy Graham

Confession and repentance might be described as the negative side of submission, this involves getting rid of everything which hinders God’s control over our lives. Yielding to God might be described as the positive side . . . placing ourselves totally into the hands of God.

~ Billy Graham

[Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.

~ Billy Graham

Before one can know what is right and wrong,he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

~ Billy Graham

You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.

~ Billy Graham

True repentance is a turning from sin . . . Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.

~ Billy Graham

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

~ Louis Zamperini

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.

~ Billy Graham

Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.

~ Criss Jami

I am so thankful for God’s mercy, grace, and patience for all the times I fell into sin. I am so grateful that He never stopped chasing me no matter how far I fell.

~ Teresa Schultz

The mercy of God's grace guides me in the right path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We will not be measured by the world’s standards anymore. We will be measured by the plumb line of God’s Word. We will be people who live out our Christianity by walking faithfully in obedience to God. We will love mercy and justice. We will love others the way God loves us— unconditionally, relentlessly, and with grace.

~ Teresa Schultz

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

~ Criss Jami

If you are not there for other people, do not expect them to be there for you. In many a case one might conclude that this is part of God's sovereign justice. His grace, however, is that He Himself will always be there for you, no matter what.

~ Criss Jami

Grace doesn't grease the wheels of the law. Grace isn't God's way of jury rigging a broken law. It's the other way around. The law is just one small cog in a world animated entirely--from top to bottom, from beginning to end--by grace.

~ Adam S. Miller

Sin acts as if God's original plan was for us to bootstrap ourselves into holiness by way of the law and then, when this didn't quite pan out, God offered his grace--but only the bare minimum--to make good the difference. This is exactly backwards. God's boundless grace comes first and sin is what follows.

~ Adam S. Miller

Here I can become the blessing, a little life that multiplies joy, making the larger world a better place.God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

~ Ann Voskamp

Our greatest need is God’s grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O God gives us all grace.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Living life is the greatest grace from God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Grace is a great mercy of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Look closely for the fingerprints of God's faithfulness throughout the seasons of your life.

~ Nancy Kay Grace

[…] God gives grace for the situation, not the imagination.

~ Hallie Lord

Mature Christians daily recognize how short they fall in keeping God's law and realizes how desperately they needs God's grace.

~ Ibrahim Emile

Everyone deserves something so much better than what they deserve.

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

The Bible never speaks of God's grace as simply making up our deficiencies--as if salvation consists in so much good works (even a variable amount) plus so much of God's grace. Rather the Bible speaks of a God who justifies the wicked (Romans 4:5) who is found by those who do not seek Him, who reveals Himself to those who do not ask for Him (see Romans 10:20).

~ Jerry Bridges

I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.

~ Kellyn Roth

God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is holy, righteous and good (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.

~ Jerry Bridges

In essence, Satan doesn't want you to believe what God thinks of Himself and what God thinks about you.

~ Ralph Harris