A God who could make good children as easily a bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made...

God is not interested in your ability. He isinterested in your availability. When you availyour ability to God, you become a faithful leader.

I don’t believe for a minute that the proof of God’s existence is achieved. My faith prohibits me from believing that the proof of God’s existence can ever be adduced. My God is not an...

Life will be a whole lot better if we understand what our salvation in Christ means.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

You will treasure each momentwhen you realizewho is handing it to you.

I lay there with my mind running amuck, on the brink of madness. And somehow, gradually, early Sunday morning, I became calm. I can’t think of any other word for it. I was thinking about...

The idea of freedom is complex and it is all-encompassing. It’s the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion. It’s the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion. And it’s...

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also...

I talk about talking like I listen to listening—in a room with mirrored walls that makes me appreciate the infinity that is God.

It’s so much more than a child’s story. – Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.

To realize that we are just a breath away from eternity takes a lot of guts and brain power. So, spend your breath wisely.

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer!

La civilisation chrétienne avait […] perverti en condamnant les joies les plus belles que Dieu ait données à l’homme.

…evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say ‘I believe...

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

… you are lovely – God has painted every feature of your soul …

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something.

In some ways I admire Aunt Helen’s unwavering certainty in God’s divine plan. It must be comforting, to have faith like that. To believe so concretely that there’s someone—something—out there watching guard, keeping us safe,...

If we rely on anything else besides faith to maintain the practice of the presence of God, we will certainly fail, whether this is our feelings, or experiences, or sincerity, or good intentions, or reasonings,...

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

There was a patient who sat with her family in a circle around her, all holding hands. Sister Philomena asked if they would like to join her for prayers and they said yes, they would....

Your best – no matter how great – isnothing if you minus God from theequation.

Give me the grace to believe that you really do know what is best for me and that I do not. May I cling to Your character and rejoice in Your pursuit of me.

Any day above ground is a good one. A woman’s beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye...

Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise...

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

God is not interested in our small mentality and our foolish perceptions. God is interested in the people of this nation.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all...

When Jesus died, satan triumphed but when He resurrected, satan died

It’s neat how God puts things in front of us to get his point across.

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author’s point is not that the thing depicts...

When the glory is gone, destiny is mortgaged on the altar of struggle

Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there...

One of the most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal suffering. Religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they...

God is taking a nap within my soul. I ponder whether to wake Him or not.

What seems like the right thing to do could also be the hardest thing you have ever done in your life

It’s kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you’re nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

If we recognize that Spirit is all powerful, and cannot be hurt, and that only Spirit exists, then nothing that happens here matters. And we see everyone and everything from the point of wholeness. Even...

When you knock my heart a voice echoes ‘welcome to the jungle’ and once you are inside you meet Ghosts

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Because God is full of life, I imagine each morning Almighty God says to the sun, “Do it again”; and every evening to the moon and the stars, “Do it again”; and every springtime to...

You are one of those million attempts by God to change the world. Don’t waste it.

I think one of the biggest reasons people have difficulty believing in God is because they don’t understand Him. You often hear doubting comments like, ‘If there is a God then why this and why...

No dream is too big for God to shine the light of manifestation on.

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.