Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

… the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every...

The overriding reason why we should take other people’s cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

God is found in the collection of Many. . . rather than in the One.

A present reality, experienced in this life that begins in you, is known as; the kingdom of God.

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn’t have given us grandmothers.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Prayer turns problems into promises and possibilities.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the...

Can we believe that the real God, if there is one, ever ordered a man to be killed simply for making hair oil, or ointment? We are told in the thirtieth chapter of Exodus, that...

God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him...

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God’s alternative future.

The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind...

Why do you believe in God?” the woman asked me in the busy corridor. I don’t remember the answer I gave. It was probably too long and rattled in her ears. I wish I could...

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,’ said Birbal, ‘and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

But that is the nature of true grace and spiritual light, that it opens to a person’s view the infinite reason there is that he should be holy in a high degree. And the more...

It’s good to let God pick a man for you. We don’t do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so...

But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love.

A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece of dough… [or inspired] books, filled with contradictions, madness, and horror.

The reason God exists is because ignorance is bliss, and God is true bliss.

Yesterday the paper had a “short” summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: “in their houses and in the streets!” God, punish those who...

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but...

The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.

Therefore let every soul be in subjection to the higher powers’ (Rom 13.1). The Christian must not be drawn to the bearers of high office; his calling is to stay below. The higher power are...

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

God is the same everywhere.

When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone.

Just know this: What you will do among children is as close to the heart of God and central to his kingdom as anything we could mention.

Who is the daughter of God?

God is calling you to change the world one life at a time and one small step at a time. Begin today where you are.

And to be here as the man I am now is just a testimony to what God can do in people’s lives.

– But here is a question that is troubling me: if there is no God, then, one may ask, who governs human life and, in general, the whole order of things on earth?– Man governs...

A tiny adjustment, but a tasty one. Poof! And somewhere in the back of their minds the godlike thought glimmers.

Belief in an infallible God does not make one infallible.

You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it;...

As sorrowful, yet always rejoicing (2 Corinthians 6:10).Sorrow was beautiful, but her beauty was the beauty of the moonlight shining through the leafy branches of the trees in the wood, and making little pools of...

Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.

Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with God’s saving power, every...

Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones.

Just all muscle-related stuff in my neck and back. Nothing was broken, thank God.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel...

Leaders are hard workers. They never expect more out of the people around them than they are willing to give themselves.

I think I’ve always been good so God wouldn’t strike me dead.

Every major accomplishment in a man’s life requires a major level of commitment.

As long as you have breath in your body, there’s hope.