There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Elwood: Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail me now.
I've been way too blessed. Had too much fun, too many rewards.
Jesus says we are blessed when we are hated, ostracized, insulted, and ridiculed on earth, because of Him.
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
I feel blessed to have an opportunity to try out for a second Olympics team and if it doesn't work out, hey I gave it my all.
The fact that people are able to be positively impacted by any of my work is really just a blessing. And ultimately, that's what I want to do.
For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I just get it done.
Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.
I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame. And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant ...
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, ...
Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed 'Not my will by thy will be done.' Ultimately, we can't tell God what to do. He ...
God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98)
All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginni...
Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "...
Is God like the Greek god, Zeus, sending down lightning bolts to cause catastrophic events? Does God decree when tragic or untimely deaths occur? Does God have a list and when your time is up, you die? Is it “God’s will” these events happen? On...
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
[...] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.
