Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion

When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

O Deus Ego Amo TeOh God, I love Thee mightily,Not only for Thy saving me, Nor yet because who love not TheeMust burn throughout eternity.Thou, Thou, my Jesu, once didst meEmbrace upon the bitter Tree.For...

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

•Don’t do yoga to get peace. It is possibly occultic. It seems innocent, but it can open a door to Satan in your life. I know this from personal experience. Seek God for peace, not...

Creation is thus God’s presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that “Creation is nothing less than the manifestation of God’s hidden Being.” This means that we and all other creatures...

I don’t think God is so jealous about our worship of Him that He will want to separate those who serve His purposes, serve His goodness, because they have read a book, even one written...

Naturally all of us don’t think we deserve very much. We don’t believe that things will go well for us in the future, generally because they may not have in the past. Our natural bent...

For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God’s lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God...

Once upon a time, [the guru] said, when God had finished making the world, he wanted to leave behind Him for man a piece of His own divinity, a spark of His essence, a promise...

There’s a resident honesty in my every emotion. As I allow myself to feel all my feelings, I will be guided to the tender healing that is available to me.

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.

reality” make you lose faith in God and gain faith in Man. Don’t put your Joy in man because when man leaves, there goes your Joy. The world didn’t give you your joy and the...

I think we need to say, ‘Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get...

The Holy Spirit is the most perfect gift of the Father to men, and yet He is the one gift which the Father gives most easily.

In the beginning of all things, wisdom and knowledge were with the animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain animals to tell men that he showed himself...

God does not require that we be successful only that we be faithful.

I have learned in my journey of faith that, the closer I am walking with God, the more likely the devil will be working to make me stumble.

Toa msamaha kwa waliokukosea kwa sababu dhambi zilizofanya mkosane zilitoka kwa Shetani.

We encounter God in the face of a stranger. That, I believe, is the Hebrew Bible’s single greatest and most counterintuitive contribution to ethics. God creates difference; therefore it is in one-who-is-different that we meet...

If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was ‘free will’ that made them doable. This is true, unless God has predestined human to do and...

Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue...

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

Murphy hakupenda kupoteza muda. Alinyanyuka na kumimina risasi, Mungu akamsaidia akadondosha wawili huku wengine wakipotea kwa kuruka vibaya na kukwepa. Kwa kasi Murphy alikimbia huku ameinama mpaka katika milango mikubwa ya nje, ambayo sasa ilikuwa...

Don’t let your personal desires distort the standards established in God’s Word.

there are institutions filled with people who talk to god. we’ve labeled and drugged them.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything...

The reality of loving God is loving him like he’s a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

Fear no one except the One.

Your willingness to serve God is as important as your service to God.

God is trustworthy—He always keeps His promises.

What we fail to realize is we often become like Pharisees in our ruthless attempts to identify Pharisees (and impostors). While indeed some people use the old laws of religious pride to tear down men...

Beware the unbelief of others. It’s contagious!

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

Among the lessons I learned on Hajj was that I needed to be mindful andkeep the inner connection with God at all times and that self-improvement is definitely a never-endingstruggle.

God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.

I am reminded that every day I have the chance to pick up a needle and some thread and add to the story. To stitch together something beautiful and unique, to patch a small scrap...

It is ironic that constructive thinkers are often misunderstood as negative, as they differ from those longing for positivity: constructive thinkers have been conditioned to find positive in negative rather than suffering from the negative...

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imagination a human being might have of it. God does,...

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?

Don’t sit around depressed and discouraged. Get a new vision for your life.

…if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into...

Christianity was not meant to be a weapon or an argument or a show of force or a political tool. Or an act of aggression or coercion. It was never meant to be a cause...

Sometimes, people you value the most may appreciate all the things you do for them. but that doesn’t mean they value you as much you value them. you sacrifice for them and give them all...

Religion is a virus that we cannot get rid of. A virus of the brain that comes from no other source than itself. We who are uninfected must find the cure.

When the door of opportunity of your storehouse opens for you, let faith and hope enter first. When your faith leads the way, you will locate the source of your hidden treasures.

When you read a holy book, you emphasize that God exists.When you see people, you sympathize their existence.