When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage. An invisible and all-powerful enemy – some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.
Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
To be a man is to suffer for others. God help us to be men!
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.
When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.
God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
Your legal career is but a means to an end, and… that end is building the kingdom of God.
The word ‘Islam’ means ‘peace.’ The word ‘Muslim’ means ‘one who surrenders to God.’ But the press makes us seem like haters.
It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.
Of all human activities, man’s listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God.
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.
The best thing of all is God is with us.
You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.
My legacy is that I will hustle and grind. No one will stop me from hustling. I’ll be where God wants me to be.
You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.
I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.
God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia.
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
My walk on the moon lasted three days. My walk with God will last forever.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
Pray, and let God worry.
Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.
If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first, it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.
I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.
Finds progress, man’s distinctive mark alone, Not God’s, and not the beast’s; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you’re available.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
We can’t solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.
At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
