God’s promises are always yes. It only takes faith and obedience to recognize them. When you do, claim them with sincerity in your heart.

Young man, young man, your arm’s too short to box with God.

If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

I am Sama Veda among the Vedas; I am Indra among the Devas; I am the mind among the senses; I am the consciousness in living beings.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. ‘They won’t let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.”What are you complaining...

To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

Thank God you didn’t do that to him, … Your dog, maybe, but not your son. They would have picked on the poor kid.

Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God...

Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

‘God bless us, every one!’ said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

We are God’s holy people.

From the Absolute to the Relative-from the Infinite to the Finite-from the Undifferentiated to the Differentiated-from the Unconditioned to the Conditioned and again from the Relative to the Absolute. That is the whole truth of...

Your life isn’t determined by your mistakes, but by your determination to keep going despite of them.

The priceless gifts (life, love, joy, goodness, family, nature) are freely given by the Creator.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.

I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble...

When you walk through the darkness, God shall be your light!.

Grace doesn’t obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

Keep trusting God. He will lead you in every step of the journey.

Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest....

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

God bless my soul.

Sowing seeds of kindness always reaps a crop of heavenly blessings.

…when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you’ll get to rest and relax until...

Eagerly desire to know thy Creator.

t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while...

Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I...

Don’t argue with the person who puts his knowledge above everyone’s else’s; you’ll always lose in that respect. But, in reality, he is the loser because he has put himself in a position where he...

Tear your heart out of your chest. And hand it to God. There is no other healing. I swear, there is no other healing.

Be confidently assured that any ‘gods’ that we build will always have veracious appetites, and sooner or later they will gorge themselves on that which built them.

The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I’m not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been...

I’m afraid that we will not have a peace process anymore, … I would say ‘God help Palestinians and Israelis’ because to have a meaningful peace process means that we would continue where we left...

don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

… the divine knowing – what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word – all that eternal...

Then Hwin, though shaking all over, gave a strange little neigh and trotted across to the Lion. “Please,” she said, “you’re so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I’d sooner be eaten by...

…I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. I have traced the worship of...

It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls,...

When He talks of their losing their selves, He means only abandoning the clamor of self-will; once they have done that, He really gives them back all their personality, and boasts (I am afraid, sincerely)...

When I’d get up in the morning, he’d make me breakfast. Now he’s not around anymore. God. I’m doing to do well, but when I come down to it, who really cares? I like doing...

When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.

God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.

For what I’ve been through, I’m just happy to be here. Thank God for keeping me healthy.

Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that...

If the sun rolled back like an eye,it would see the mind of God.

Though God’s attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Perfect worlds do not exist. There are only the funny, strange, weeping, singing, truncated, and imperfect universes created by the gods of paintbrush and musical instruments, the gods who infuse their creations with their own...