'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?
I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them.
Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
Love to me, God, this is so difficult... To me, love is when you meet that person and you think, 'This is it, this is who I'm supposed to be with.'
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.
The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
An angel of God never has wings.
God made the world for us to live together in peace and not fight.
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!
I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
It is true that you can't prove a negative. However, the existence of God is provable in the same way a building is positive proof that there was a builder.
What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live the best lives possible - knowing that there is a higher being who loves us and will never leave us. Through the many struggles in my life, my faith is sometimes the only thing I have to hold onto. God was my only friend.
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.
Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
