I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
When God saved me, He gave me a thirst to learn and to read and to study. I thrived in college. I got a bachelor's degree in philosophy and then went to Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando.
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.
I'm terribly sad about Farrah's passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.
I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.
God instructed Nehemiah to build a wall around Jerusalem to protect its citizens from enemy attack. You see, God is not against building walls!
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
I always liked the idea that Thor was the god who'd wake up every day and look at that hammer and not know whether he was going to pick it up. Only the worthy can lift the hammer of Thor, and I love the idea of a god who was always questioning his own worthiness.
Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometimes you don't do as well as you want to. It can be discouraging at times. But whenever I do get frustrated, I just focus on God.
If God drives a car, He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof, with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.
I was very blessed in always knowing what I wanted to do, and by the grace of God I've been able to succeed in my chosen career.
What surprises me most about God is that the creator of the universe should want a relationship with me.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is this any license to us to enslave any of our fellow-men, to kill any of our fellow-men whom we please and are able to destroy, and take possession of their estates?
For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
