To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you're like, 'Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,' or whatever. That's how we connect, right?
According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds on the floor.
'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.
Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil.
Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
Just as a son, to be a son of man, must be of the same nature and spirit of his father; so with the sons of God, and so it will be with all who are born of the spirit of God.
Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
How good is God! How sweet his yoke!
You may be leading, then you might be at the back of the pack trying to work your way up. It's just a constant reminder not to give up, and to know that God, in my mind, is really in control.
I believe in God. God created the world.
I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.
God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
I do have faith. I don't have faith that a God exists, nor do I have faith that one does not; I have absolute faith that I do not know, cannot know, am only human, am an infinitesimal creature packed onto a cramped planet crowded with seven billion bodies, and as many yearning hearts, and as many questioning minds.
It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
I'm not interested in gigs unless I really want to do them. I walked away from music in 1997, and then there was a greatest hits in 2002. Thank God, it didn't do too well because the record company wouldn't promote it.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.
For many people, the family is portrayed as the settled place of reasonable safety, but as anyone who has read 'The God of Small Things' would know, for me it was a dangerous place. I felt humiliated in that space. I wanted to get away as soon as I could.
Let the inner god that is in each one of us speak. The temple is your body, and the priest is your heart: it is from here that every awareness must begin.
God does arithmetic.
I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
To become a villain, you had to have become disillusioned, and in order to become disillusioned you had to have been passionate about something you believed in that was shaken and ripped from your grasp as a protagonist in that stage of your life, leaving you disillusioned with God, if you will.
I would be terrified if Bill Maher was like, 'Hey, do you want to come on the show?' I would be like, 'Oh, God.' It would completely terrify me, even though I'm such a junkie for the show.
There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.
