Quotes of: Gods Keyword

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

Searching for God Knows What

For a long time, Maurice rubbed his shaved head in his palm, until at last he looked up at his student. "Teo, I think you have to let Deu be the God he is, not the god you want him to be.

The Sword

Victory begins when we are willing to run by faith, trusting that he will lead the way.

Stressed-Less Living: Finding God's Peace in Your Chaotic World

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.

Small Changes for a Better Life: Daily Steps to Living God's Plan for You

Redemption encompasses both of these scenes: God's full and complete entry into the conditions of a world suffering in sin and death and God's resurrection of Jesus to new life, as the firstborn of the new creation.

The Teaching Ministry of Congregations

God pours out his choicest blessings on those who are anxious that nothing shall stick to their hands. Individuals who value the rainy day above the present agony of the world will get no blessing from God.

True Discipleship

It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will not work the other way. No one who hears a god's voice takes it for a man's.

Till We Have Faces

God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end.

'Tween Heaven and Hell

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

The Pursuit of God

God is so vastly wonderful, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.

The Pursuit of God

I was born the same year the greatest automobile in the history of automobiles was created, the 1957 Chevrolet. Thank God only one of us had tail fins.

Prisoner of Southern Rock: A Memoir

Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is not confirmed and what we thought not God contives.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

If you’re being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God’s hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

The Power of a Praying Parent

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. "The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves.

Paladin of Souls

You’re only as happy as your least happy child,’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Perfectly Miserable: Guilt, God and Real Estate in a Small Town

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World

I have yet to hear God's audible voice, although I have often felt led by God in more subtle ways.

Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life