Man is somewhere in between God and animal. Jarod is somewhere in between Jar and Jason. (One of which I keep chained up in my freezer).

I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.

Only God can take our failures and turn them into victories.

There is no fact, no detail of our life too sordid for God’s intervention. God has seen murder. God has seen rape. God has seen drug addiction’s and alcoholism’s utter degradation. God is available to...

Asking for blessings,receiving blessings, becoming a blessing,becoming a source of blessings

Not being able to fully understand God is frustrating but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable of comprehending. What a stunted, insignificant...

There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist.

To save your life from prodigal waste, you must have good ideas. God may give you an idea that he may send someone to pay for. Surely, if you hide that idea, you may not...

Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.

You’re the God. Take responsibility. Exercise your power

What is God’s part and what is man’s part? God’s part is grace. Man’s part is faith.

God is the message owner; prophets and pastors are messengers. It’s happens on no account when the messenger becomes greater than the message owner! Let’s us avoid these “human worships”, confining our source of hope...

The flight away from self to God is not a “forgetting self” in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible...

If I told you that God speaks to us through our urges so long as these are safe and proper and totally civilized and don’t hurt anyone, what would I be saying? If I told...

Il n’y a qu’une seule liberté, se mettre en règle avec la mort. Après quoi, tout est possible. Je ne puis te forcer à croire en Dieu. Croire en Dieu, c’est accepter la mort. Quand...

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

You may slip but God isn’t going to let you down. His loving arms will always be there to catch you.

God arranges everything for us, so that we need have no more fear or trouble and may be quite sure that all things will come right in the end.

Predestination therefore, as it regards the thing itself, is the Decree of the good pleasure of God in Christ, by which He resolved within Himself from all eternity, to justify, adopt, and endow with everlasting...

The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision

When you know truly know just how much God loves you it won’t matter when others don’t and if you know truly know God accepts you it won’t matter when others won’t

The Holy Spirit Asks that you accept the idea of one mind wholeheartedly, for this is the Correction to the error called ego. The ego was the belief in private minds with private thoughts, but...

MISUNDERSTANDING” arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes

We pray to obey God, not to ‘play God’. We pray, not to change God’s mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to ‘let...

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.

Why don’t you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?” I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can’t see, but yet people are so willing to take the...

The sun which warms the plant can under other conditions also wither it. The rain which nourishes the flower can under other conditions rot it. The same sun shines upon mud that shines upon wax....

Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of...

I don’t even care about myself anymore, just promise me she’ll be okay. If I don’t make it… if you take me, just let Kiersten be okay. She can’t go down that road — I...

If you’re born a man, be a man. If a woman, be proud of being one. For, you’re not the body, mind, this or that. “Ye are gods!” – human.

And that is just precisely what Christianity is about. This world is a great sculptor’s shop. We are the statues and there is a rumour going round the shop that some of us are some...

God

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God’s prior and original gift of things that are....

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love...

As we understand it, everything is in the Bible for one reason – to teach us a lesson. Thus, in the beginning of the Bible, we see how God budgets His time for labor, and...

I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn. But whereThe wind is westerly,Where gnarled November makes the spiders flyInto...

As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other – all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.

We have executed the will of God and the rule of law because he killed people, ordered assaults on fighters and he had a big file of corruption.

Woman is the light of God.

Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I’m walking right there beside her. That doesn’t mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I’ll pick her up...

As someone has said “gods” is not really the plural of God; God has no plural.

God made everything out of the void, but the void shows through

Another way to describe the dilemma for religious faith is that pluralism creates social conditions in which God is no longer an inevitability. While it is possible to believe in God, one has to work...

I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flankedby things too wonderful for me

love.

…questioning the existence of God may begin because of one’s sense of disappointment rather than because of a line of reasoning. Disappointment can bring disillusionment, and disillusionment can get quite a grip on us. It...

The divine is always abominable.”Houses Under The Sea

It’s a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It’s amazing what you gain from the conversation.