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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
It can not be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ!
While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.
[Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.
As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe.
Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.
Art is my God, Music is my religion.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
You are not hopeless. You are not helpless. Because there is a God who is alive and loves you!
God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.
A man with God is always in the majority.
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.
To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
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