It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while...

I think I just said it, but I think it’s worth repeating. They gave me hope that there is good in the world out there. There really is. It really does exist. Regardless of how...

Plans change, Iktomi said. Got a plan that doesn’t require explosives.Are you confident in that? Mangas asked.I’m a god, Iktomi replied. I’m always confident.I’m a human, Mangas thought, and we know shit happens.

I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.

We have often done well knowing the mind of God in our churches today. We have not done as well knowing His heart. We have largely become a church that pursues insights, principles, and theological...

All the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God’s Paradise.

It’s as if God has been showing me that I need to make peace, to heal from the past.

Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Holiness consists simply in doing God’s will, and being just what God wants us to be.

These aren’t still shots; the camera is always moving. And the scene is always just slipping out of sight, as if in spite of myself I were always descending a hill, rounding a corner, stepping...

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see...

Sometimes when we say “God is silent,” what’s really going on is that he hasn’t told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in...

My son, do not forget my teaching,But let your heart keep my commandments;For length of days and years of lifeAnd peace they will add to you.Do not let kindness and truth leave you;Bind them around...

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the table of elements; he alone is knowable as the one totally in control of being known. He...

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can’t. Once having set up her idols and built altars to the, it was imevitable that she would worship there. It was...

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever – do not abandon the works of your hands.

Kill a man and you’re a murderer. Kill many and you’re a conqueror. Kill them all, you’re a god.

Through my choices and actions, I have learned the most effective way of speaking to God is without saying a word.

It is the moment when you say, “I can’t” that God says, “You can.” That’s the reason why “G” comes first before “I” so that we should always ask from God first before we can...

It don’t matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself...

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Our business is to be free of anything that separates us from God, who has created us to simply be happy and to progress.

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency… God’s sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him...

For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are ‘musts.’ Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from...

What distances can be explored without God?

Your power is in your story and all the wisdom it has brought you.

Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light

Let’s say that the God the Christians pray to is real. He actually exists. But this God is the same as the one that the Jews pray to and the same as the one that...

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been believed in during the long history of medical folly have been such as caused acute suffering to the...

Wo” means bone.

As I accepted my death and dissolution into God’s love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to...

God shall shine through the person you are and not the mistakes you made.

Awe-inspiring God.Amazing God.Awesome God.Almighty God.

They ought to make it a binding clause that if you find God you get to keep Him.

It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning play....

When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.

God always has a plan for you, before you even have a plan for yourself.

We’re so worried about the legal details of crossing doctrinal t’s and dotting sociopolitical i’s that we miss the big picture. The love picture. The one thing Jesus was really clear about: LOVE. If we...

I may not understand all what God does, but I sure of His faithfulness.

These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy…walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, ‘Business as usual.’ But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a...

To be “in Christ” is to place one’s trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be “in Christ” is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the...

I asked God to let this pain go away for a minute, … I kept swinging and saying, ‘This is OK.’

That third verse says in a nutshell who God is. It’s my favorite.

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

This hill, though high, I covet to ascend; The difficulty will not me offend. For I perceive the way to life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear. Better, though difficult,...

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.

If I have forfeited the ability to wonder so as not to offend the tenets of the culture, and if I have sacrificed warm dreams on the cold altar of conformity, it is likely because...