And so it was that Michael built a brown castle on the peak of his mountain, Gabriel built a golden pyramid in the midst of his plain, saying it was both a holy temple in...

That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

But God does not neglect his lost creature. He plans to re-create his image in man, to recover his first delight in his handiwork. He is seeking in it his own image so that he...

It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found...

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it....

It fits my experience of Him.

When you pray, you are speaking to yourself. When you take action, you are speaking to God.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

Unabii ni uwezo alionao mtu wa kuongea mambo matakatifu ya Mungu, kuwaongoza wenzake katika njia njema. Mungu humwambia nabii kitu cha kusema na nabii huwambia wenzake kile ambacho Mungu amemwambia aseme. Mungu hawezi kuongea na...

The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition to responsive hearing. Grace flows ordinarily from prevenient grace through the...

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low...

For a week the sun had been nothing but a puffy, seamless sheet of white, and this Tuesday had begun the same. But as the day progressed, the grayness receded like a mist, the sky’s...

Rule #1 always look out for yourself first don’t nobody love/care for you like you do.

For every shrill and violent voice that throws itself in front of microphones and cameras in the name of God, there are countless lives of gentleness and good works who will not. We need to...

Sikujui.

Afterwards, when it’s all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all...

Science adjusts its views based on what’s observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

The way we talk and our behavior should reflect positively on God.

I’m not condemning people. God’s going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. … People don’t want to know what I have to...

Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.

After your friendship with God, your wife’s friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

Human life is created in God’s image, and that makes it sacred.

Just say it: I’m angry and no one will like me. God: No, I will not say that. But don’t you think we ached for you to find a love you could share your whole...

Bettering the lives of others is the role of a person with a servant’s heart.

And I didn’t think you believed in god or a heaven.”Having been here thirty-four days,’ I tell him, ‘I’ve changed my mind, Sydney.”Why’s that then?’ he smiles.’Well, if there’s a hell like this place, then...

God, who knows me by name, [is] right next to me.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of...

I can accept no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by...

Listening is an act of love. When you listen to people, you are communicating non-verbally that they are important to you.

God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his...

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But...

God’s greatest desire is for you to come to Him.

A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning ’causeOur art’s official and only partially artificialAnd our heart’s in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere’s not where it settlesBecause it’s...

When the great ship containing the hopes and aspirations of the world, when the great ship freighted with mankind goes down in the night of death, chaos and disaster, I am willing to go down...

Don’t ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in...

If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.

the Dancing Bear wants us to suffer.

In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.

Loki’d!

‘I don’t believe there is a God’, I said fiercely, ‘and if there is, He’s not the merciful being He’s always depicted, or He wouldn’t be always torturing me for His own amusement.’

There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his...

After a RetreatWhat hast thou learnt today?Hast thou sounded awful mysteries,Hast pierced the veiled skies,Climbed to the feet of God,Trodden where saints have trod, Fathomed the heights above?Nay,This only have I learnt, that God is...

Jesus came for us, but that doesn’t mean he came to please us. Jesus came for us, but he does not answer to us. Jesus came for us, but he will not subject himself to...

We are not defined by belief or by faith nor religion.We are the family of God.

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.