He who falls, falls by his own will; and he who stands, stands by God’s will.

May God inspire you to have great visions.

I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.

Despite the differences in detail and in emphasis in Wesley’s exposition of the two sacraments, there is an underlying unity in his sacramental theology. He regarded both sacraments as means whereby God could confer grace...

When will I realize that without God my world is draped in shadows between which there is not a single ray of light? And when will I recognize that with God, my world is deluged...

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to...

We all got to die,” she said. “But dying as your true self is always better. God’ll take you however you come to Him. But it’s easier on a soul to come to Him clean....

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the...

destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the...

When God requires us to surrender one dream, it’s because He wants to hand us a bigger and better one.

The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was...

God is an idea, the devil is us.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

I’m not religious, and I’m not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a God. It’s kind of defending the indefensible, though; I’m critical of what religions are...

I Only Believe What I See But I Question Everything I Hear

It was once stated that God didn’t play with dice, but then I discovered that most of the Gods did play with dice. However, they didn’t see Destiny playing chess the entire time behind them....

As you’ll recall, what you believe — about who you are and who God is — determines how you behave. If you believe everybody is going to criticize you, you’ll behave cautiously. If you believe...

Most of us don’t fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don’t think that we...

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some...

Always re-invent yourself. Always try new things; new food, new hobbies, meet new people. That will keep your life from becoming stagnant and boring. And you will have a lot more fun!

Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under development is not one of God’s mysterious designs.

What would be possible,if you truly believed?Hardcore, soft heart, down-to-the-bone, up-through-the-atmosphere. Tell. No. Lies. Pinky promise, scout’s honor, cross your heart + hope to LIVE life to the fullest—belief? I DOUBLE-DOG DARE you to honestly,...

The eye is to light as the soul is to God.

Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people –...

Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don’t feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they’re stuck right...

The sound of ‘gentle stillness’ after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Hapana! Murphy yupo! Ni mfanyabiashara maarufu huko Tanzania. Lakini ndiyo hivyo kama unavyosema … Haonekani!

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God’s image in someone who is not in my image, who language, faith, ideal, are different from mine? If I...

Oh,’ the priest said, ‘that’s another thing altogether – God is love. I don’t say the heart doesn’t feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a...

The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person’s face. When you forgive, it’s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you’re trying to escape.

Like, oh my God, what are, what are we gonna do, how are we gonna explain this? Like, what, what, you know, what are the cops going to say?

If we want to know what God wants from us as Christians, we must have a firm biblical grasp of His intention in making man in the first place.

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as they are, must be a haven from the chaos outside. They should be a reflection of our eternal home, where...

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.

When you are obedient to God, He fills you with His Spirit and empowers you to do all He asks of you.

The common man prays, ‘I want a cookie right now!’ And God responds, ‘If you’d listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.

The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her child if someone were to harm it. There is something wrong if the...

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...

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

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.

But I comforted myself with the thoughtthat the reward for every discomfort I suffered for God was a spiritual blessing.