I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.
The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.
I was quite an insomniac. I rarely slept as a child. Having God to talk to at night was nice.
The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
If you love god, burn a church.
The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.
I wouldn't put it past God to arrange a virgin birth if He wanted, but I very much doubt if He would.
God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
The very first schoolbook that was written had God all over it.
I can tell you from experience that God's help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.
If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.
I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.
I've had no contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
