...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.
Being a “friend of sinners” is an accusation that Christians should wear as a badge of honor, for nothing could honor Jesus more, and nothing is more revealing of who God actually is.
God's Word makes it very clear that the state of our hearts determines the quality of our "listening ears.
I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now “God gave it to me!” Don’t you think you are too stupid?
As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded with God for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.
I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.
Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.
The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush...
God, with a wisdom I can't claim to understand, called you home a long time ago, and the tears I shed that night have never seemed to dry.
Without God, the universe is an empty space, and emptiness is the most terrible feeling you can have." – Ernesto.
I must shape my own coat according to my cloth, but it will not be after the fashion of this world, God willing, but fit for me.
God's already let go of your past. He doesn't remember it. He doesn't count it against you. Now it's time for you to let go too.
I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.
If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.
Leaders are good messengers; they take the message from God and share it with others in the world. Jesus is a true example; He said “Here I am, send me Lord”!
When I realize that God makes his gifts fit each person, there's no way I can covet what you got because it just wouldn't fit me.
If you are not in good terms with the one who sent you, you can’t have the right direction to the errands he wants to send you for. Be in good talking terms with God; pray without ceasing!
But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty." McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. "It isn’t man or God. It’s something...in the brain.
Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources
Remove God from the world of ideas. Remove government, politics from society. Keep sex, humor, utilities. Let private property go.
A bully with charisma and top marks is still a bully. He'll probably end up Prime Minister one day. God help us all.
