Prayer, Holy communication with God

God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.

In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities… but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals… but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers… but so little worship.

Daily seek the divine presence of God.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man’s soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice,...

Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such...

And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it’s the same thing.

God doesn’t care how well you can preach about forgiveness… what He looks at is your behavior when presented the opportunity to practice it.

Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The things you have are a shared effort, Gods blessings and human strength. Give thanks for the blessings in all situations.

What do people mean when they say, ‘I am not afraid of God because I know He is good’? Have they never even been to a dentist?

The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the...

If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered.

You mean the day they stop needing the church,” Vittoria challenged, moving toward him. “Doubt is your last shred of control. It is doubt that brings souls to you. Our need to know that life...

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY…not perfection.

When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me.

To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.

Stories are masks of God.That’s a story, too, of course. I made it up, in collaborations with Joseph Campbell and Scheherazade, Jesus and the Buddha and the Brother’s Grimm.Stories show us how to bear the...

Your love renders you impatient and disturbed.With such sincerity you haveplaced your head at her feet that you are oblivious to the world.When in the eyes of your beloved riches don’t count, gold and dust...

Deliver thunder, GodIf you choose not to talk.

He said focus. The word focus. I hear angels singing. Everything goes dark except for a light that beams down on Sean. It is a God-given sign- like when people see the Virgin Mary in...

Those who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.

The Bible has been through at least half a dozen translations by the time you read it. Plus, when the word of God is infected by the hand of man, that is, written down, it...

In Him we have . . . the forgiveness of sins . . . —Ephesians 1:7Beware of the pleasant view of the fatherhood of God: God is so kind and loving that of course He...

This is one reason people need to believe in God—because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.

The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.–“Wanda

The life of a human being on this earth is very short – the years fly by – and the opportunity is past – forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being’s...

[Obey is unbowed.] I think if you asked God, he’d say the Ten Commandments were a road map for living, … Instead, you have these self-appointed pharisees who think the Ten Commandments can be turned...

Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He will see to it that they are added unto us. If we follow...

No more hiding in the shadow of your brokenness; even The shards reveal flickering bits of your soul. Align with light. Luminescence emits a spectrum of brilliant possibilities. Shine!

…this refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of...

Xas sighed. “But I don’t want to talk about God. Why do I? Sometimes I feel God is all over me like a pollen and I go about pollinating things with God.”Sobran opened his eyes...

No man will say, “There is no God” ’till he is so hardened in sin that it hasbecome his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Dude–she’s your wife.” He pointed to the locker where the Bible lay concealed. “God first, family second, country third.

And we’re not alone, you know, children,” came Mrs. Whatsit, the comforter. “All through the universe, it’s being fought, all through the cosmos, and my, but it’s a grand and exciting battle. I know it’s...

God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn’t always answer the way we want him to.

Kuzaliwa na kuishi ni mibaraka mikubwa ya Mwenyezi Mungu kuliko yote duniani.

Right now I am like the unborn baby in the womb, knowing nothing except the comforting warmth of the amniotic fluid in which I swim, the comforting nourishment entering my body from a source I...

The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building...

Fanya kazi kwa bidii na maarifa!

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.

We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional...

Maombi yako yasipojibiwa usikate tamaa, Mungu alishakusikia na tayari alishaandaa malaika wa kukuletea jibu. Jibu wakati mwingine huchelewa kufika kwa sababu ya nguvu za giza. Usiwe na haraka, muda wako ukifika utajibiwa.

Scripture, empowered by God’s Spirit, is the instrument that brings people to salvation.