I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Out of that aloneness - the experience of God. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.

Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He, Unswervingly believes in me.

I could become like that dyslexic agnostic in the old joke - the one who lies in bed and tries to figure out if his dog exists.

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

So our building of the visible Church becomes much like any natural business function, using natural means and natural motives.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.

It's amazing to me how many people who profess to be spiritual seekers are self-seekers, and how few of them ever consider God.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances.

God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standing up to the greatest power.

I can honestly say I am a Christian, but my spirituality has been developed on the road and is based on my experiences with God.

It's a natural blessing. Thanks to God. He gave me this ability of being chubby but still being fast and being able to hit hard.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

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