The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.
God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - and it's flattering and all, but attention was never my big goal. I just like to work and have a good time.
And as the circumcised in the flesh, and not in the heart, have no part in God's good promises; even so they that be baptized in the flesh, and not in heart, have no part in Christ's blood.
Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
I don't disagree with anything I've ever said. Why in God's name would I disagree with something I've said?
In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.
To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.
Revelation is communication from God to His children on the earth and one of the great blessings associated with the gift and constant companionship of the Holy Ghost.
I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
When I'd hang out with guy friends, I'd say things like 'I just don't get along with other girls.' Just so they could think I was cooler, you know? Shamelessly trying to level myself up by putting other women down. God it's so embarrassing to admit, but it's important cause I want people to know about the growth. That I'm not perfect.
I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.
Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.
Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.
From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
I always said God was against art and I still believe it.
Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation.
The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.
