A Deity believed, is joy begun; A Deity adored, is joy advanced; A Deity beloved, is joy matured. Each branch of piety delight inspires.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the East.

I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY god. My own interpretation of the supernatural.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Seems like God don't see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams - but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile.

God's plans for you are better than any plans you have for yourself. So don't be afraid of God's will, even if it's different from yours.

Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.

God is watching us, but He loves us so much that He can't take His eyes off us. We may lose sight of God, but He never loses sight of us.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

But no one who is lost has lost one ounce of value to God. Even if you don't have a relationship with him, you have immense value to God.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Who guides below, and rules above, The great disposer, and the mighty king; Than He none greater, next Him none, That can be, is, or was.

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors.

The moment we change our thinking and start connecting with God, we start connecting with His plans, which always exceed our small plans.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

Abide in peace, banish cares, take no account of all that happens, and you will serve God according to his good pleasure and rest in him.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the manuscripts of God.

To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

Sometimes I try my hand at turning out small profundities and uncertain short stories, but I always end up with just one single word: God.

God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves.

every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Wages cannot be considered as a gift, because they are due to work, but God has given free grace to all men by the justification of faith.

What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything.

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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