Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?
Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.
There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.
And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
When you turn your life over to God, you don't give up the drama; you give up the cheap drama.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'
Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the, oppinion of the world to contrary notwithstanding.
If I truly believe everything that's in that book, God is in control. He is in control. He's working for my good. Doesn't mean everything's going to be smooth, but that's all I needed to know. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
If there is no God, everything is permitted.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
I like a spirituality with a God that knows how to drive a car, that knows how to take his girl to the dance club, dance all night, have a little drink, kiss the kid when they come back in and go to sleep. God doesn't need a chauffeur - he needs to drive himself.
The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.
Not a single time have we gotten a right from Congress or from the President. We get them from God.
Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory.
You can be a Christian. You can be Jew. You can be a Muslim. You can be atheist. This is your own choice. But the law, the constitution, the law of the people is above God's law. So when somebody arrives in Europe, people need to accept those rules.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
