The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.
Even when you can't see, God is working it out. You should not be discouraged or give up hope. Keep the Faith! Your situation is not your destination. God will do what he promised, you just be ready
The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.
We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat.
Why not? Why not anything? If God ain’t a God of why nots, than I say ‘Why bother,’ and I don’t think that’s takin his name in vain, I think it’s tellin the truth about what people need.
I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil. I have seen him, I have smelled him and I have touched him. I know the devil exists and therefore I know there is a God.
You know all about love, but that is not enough. You must also learn that hate comes from God as well, that it too is in the Lord's service. And in times like these, with the world fallen to the state it has, hate serves God more than love.
He knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the ineffable wisdom and judgment of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of their ways...
God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.
If you don't believe in God, then the God concept is a great placeholder for everything we don't know, which is exponentially more than we do know.
Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers.
Start where you are-do anything you can do, and do everything you can do, until you find something you must do! That something is probably your spiritual gift.
When he won, it proved that God was on his side. When he didn't win, it meant that God wanted him to try harder.
Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minister of God bringing its rebuke and sorrow to you.
The writing of novels is one of the few ways I have found to approach the altar of God and Creation itself. You try to worship God by performing the singularly courageous and impossible favor of knowing yourself.
You cannot win anymore even if you do your best. Because everyone is doing their best. In order to win, you have to do more than you best.
Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said “Chernobog.” The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a woman could always hope.
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.
I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
