O Lord, as I walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt, at least let mewear a Walkman…

only the survivor” can truly define justice. – Kirkus Review

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action.

Deeply immersed in a constant bubble bath of sin, you cannot communicate with Jesus Christ unless you are ready to get out of the bath. John 1:9

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman; and there is only one relationship...

Your heart of devotion and obedience is not in vain. Who knows but God how many people have come near to you and were forever changed simply by the fragrance of his love in you?...

If you lose God’s paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.

What you know can never be the beyond. Whatever you experience is not the beyond. If there is any beyond, this movement of ‘you’ is absent. The absence of this movement probably is the beyond,...

Most accounts of mystical experiences… insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be “living” or alive, as in “living God.” But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize?...

Love has no contingencies, no expectations, no ideals. Love is a gift to thyself, the experience of divinity in full expression.

For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observable nature of things. The poetic and theological idea that the universe is an expression of God’s...

Julian tried to keep a pleasant smile on his face, though already it felt strained. He was uncomfortable with people who used the word blessed as a part of their everyday speech. The implication was...

Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute.

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his...

Cat would be god for elephant, if it ate mouse in front. (Chat serait dieu de l’éléphant, – S’il mangeait la souris devant.)

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland...

Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.

They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing.Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!”God told them, “I’ve never quit loving you and never...

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

Steve, stop asking God to do something. God already did something, he gave you life. Now YOU do something!

Let your doubts and fears be replaced with faith. Let your hatred and bitterness be replaced with love. Above all, let God’s will be done in your life.

Christ.No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel’s sister gave Him a perfectly good...

I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn’t look at me and wish...

The church’s theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it...

Change can be terrifying, but I’ve come to expect that God has an even greater adventure awaiting me than the one I leave behind.

While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for...

If God had not permitted the people of Jerusalem to be torn asunder and driven them from the land, but had let them keep it after before, no one could convince them that they are...

Do we? Our problem is whatever wedges between us and God.

Have you ever tried thinking of God as a person instead of an all-powerful vending machine that never gives you the right amount of change? He has feelings too, you know.

Holy communication, Holy life.

It may be true that there is no God here, but there must be one not far off, and at such a moment one feels His presence; which comes to the same as saying (and...

A fájdalom, amit érzel a gyengeség, amint elhagyja a szívedet. A téveszmék elmúltának fájdalma. Nincs magasabb rendű eszme. Nincsenek istenek. Nincsenek bírák, akik ítélkeznek jó és rossz felett. Nem kérlek, hogy szeresd a valóságot. Csak...

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of union.

If you are looking for an excuse to quit you will find it, but if you are looking for a reason to continue you must fight for it.

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job is to know Him well, discover what He created us to do, and...

Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God?Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!

You shall not be afraid to hear bad news. God will strengthen you.

It takes a real man to see the difference between a diamond and a rhinestone.Can’t be mad when someone else takes the diamond, that you treated like a rhinestone

Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you have to talk about them some people may have problems in life and you making rumors can lead to stress and cause the person to kill...

What parent can give to their children is the gift of daily prayer.

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life.

Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.

Tears are God’s way of cleansing the heart.

…goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don’t go anywhere. They don’t accomplish anything.

1. Myth: Without God, life has no meaning. There are 1.2 billion Chinese who have no predominant religion, and 1 billion people in India who are predominantly Hindu. And 65% of Japan’s 127 million people...

Lift your hips for me, love.

How about another run?