A party of two is that of God; of three of the king; of four is of the devil.
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.
When the devil reigns today God will be master tomorrow.
You have to believe in gods to see them.
Have faith -- God calls forth life even from eggs.
God gives to us according to the measure of our hearts.
God promised me a fur coat and I'm already sweating.
Before you find God, you will be eaten by saints.
If God sends you meal, the devil takes the sack.
Forsake not God till you find a better master.
Every man for himself and God for us all.
Italians talk to women, Frenchmen to the learned, and the Spaniard talks to God.
God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
Man does what he can, God does what he will.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
All I do when we're apart is think about you, and all I when we're together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I'm so out of control, I can't help myself. I'm not even mine anymore, I'm yours, and what if you decide that y...
No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, ...
If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage...
To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help. When...
These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God's values, but trust, surrender? Letting go, forgiveness? Maybe just after a period of prayer, but then ...
I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're human.” “Barely. They might as well be another species. What would happen without us to keep them in check?...
