Quotes of: God-help Keyword

Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe? "I don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know why." After that day I saw him often. He explained to...

Night

The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces that save us from idolatry. The more we listen to ourselves, the more we create God in our own image until God becomes a tawdry idol...

Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us, even against our wills, to ...

The Practice of the Presence of God

Behrani: [Praying for his dying son] Please, God, don't take my joon-am. I make my nazr. My nazr, hear me, please to hear me. I will give everything to one who is less fortunate. Yes! I will make it for the broken bird. Please, God, I'm making nazr t...

House of Sand and Fog

A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish for youth," said Mercury, "or for beauty, or power, or ...

Love

I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are.

Mexican

True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

City of God

God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life

In the beginning - not now, thank God - Patty was always sharing the important books of her life with him, like Black Elk Speaks, The Golden Bough, and Hero with a Thousand Faces.

Clockers

Doubt keeps us from believing things can get better.

A Confident Heart: How to Stop Doubting Yourself & Live in the Security of God's Promises

Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?

The Carolinian

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth