I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.
In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
I beg the Most High to allow me the favour of the double reward, but if God only finds me worthy of one reward, I will accept it in all humility.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
I serve God, and my purpose is to please Him, and if God be for you, who can be against you?
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
When I speak of natural drummers I'm talking about guys that are playing with the talent God gave 'em.
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.
I was afraid that if I surrendered my life over to God, God would tell me not to do those things that I desperately wanted to do.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all your heart and mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That's it.
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.
A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.
The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
People say, 'Did you violate Heaven?' Well, God is down here, too. If you believe in God, you believe in God here as well as 240,000 miles away.
If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.'
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
When you're born again, your DNA changes. You have the ability to understand God's terms.
I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
