James Dobson Quotes

I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.

I have come to realize that God is sovereign, and there are things I just don't understand.

God is best known in not knowing him.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Certainly there is no contending against the will of God, but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining it, and applying it, to particular cases.

I feel most deeply that this whole question of Creation is too profound for human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton! Let each man hope and believe what he can.

We are all children of a powerful and great God. Of a God who isn't always going to end - things are not always going to end up the way you want them. His will is not always going to be yours.

God gave us the mind so that we can know him.

God does not play dice.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

I think it's a wonderful fact about Judaism - at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don't have it all figured out. God is unknowable.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.