A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly.
I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.
A statesman… must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
God is best known in not knowing him.
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
I live and love in God’s peculiar light.
Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
I have seen (as far as it can be seen) many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God.
If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.
Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
I’m far from being god, but I work god damn hard.
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.
God looks out for fools and babies.
God is good for everybody. The sun shines on good people and bad people, and it rains on both, too. God doesn’t choose rain only for bad people.
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
I’m not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
I am responsible only to God and history.
Laughter is God’s blessing.
God is the perfect poet.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
I don’t have a religion. I believe in a God. I don’t know what it looks like but it’s MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
My dad said, ‘Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.’ My mom said, ‘Always be yourself.’ She always told me only God can judge me.
Your God is ever beside you – indeed, He is even within you.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.
Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God’s borne out on you.
I wasn’t really too hyped on religion. I don’t really believe in a religion like that. I just believe that there is a God. There’s just somebody up there that listens to me, and they can show me better if I talk to them and build a relationship with them.
AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals; it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
If God had intended us to fly, he’d have never given us railways.
It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings.
I’m cute – and God I hate that. Because that’s not cool. I’m like your niece, and nobody wants to date their niece. It’s the chubby cheeks. The whole reason people voted for me on American Idol is because I’m an everyday, normal girl.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
