Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.
I was looking at the setlist backstage and I just said, 'Oh my God, the first six songs nobody's gonna know.' But they all knew the lyrics. It just blew me away.
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting.
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same time creates the freedom that will make them more responsive to the will of God throughout their lives.
How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?
Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
I am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.
We have mistaken the nature of poverty, and thought it was economic poverty. No, it is poverty of soul, deprivation of God's recreating, loving peace.
I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
God gave us the mind so that we can know him.
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him.
And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.
I'm a hybrid, from a cultural perspective, but I don't think in these terms. I'm more simple than that. I'm a mammal who will live 70 years, more or less, who believes in God and likes his life.
And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
