The God Quotes
Only Jesus can take care of the past. But we can help Him with the present.
God is neither just nor unjust. ‘No one be hurt in the slightest’
The call of Christ is a call to live a life of sacrifice and loss and suffering--a life that would be foolish to live if there were no resurrection from the dead.
Faith is a process in action. It cannot exist without work.
When I choose to dwell in the assurance of Whose I am and who I am in Him, I have a confident heart.
Is this some kind of joke?""That's for me to know and you to find out.""Maybe you think it's funny to put up signs about people who want to commit sui
In Jesus the performance pendulum stops — both the pride of success and the despair of failure are absorbed by grace.
It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?
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She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
They called her witch because she knew how to heal herself.
Shut up, Arthur, ' said my mother, and he zipped his mouth shut like an infuriating child.Ginger started to laugh. Not at anything in particular, but just because Ginger was stoned.
Some people react to suffering by denying the very possibility of God's existence
If this was mental illness, or even just a particularly clinical case of adolescence, I was bearing up pretty well.
Solomon smiles with us
Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)
Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars
How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either
Energy out of control is dangerous
I believe in angels because the Bible says there are angels
No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future
We do not need a new moral order
The Apocalypse . . . a storm warning that carries a booming jolt of truth—Trouble ahead
Your imperfections make you the perfect tool for God to work with. John 3:16
When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.
And the thing about grace, real grace, is that it stings. It stings because if it's real it means we don't "deserve" it. ... And receiving grace is basically the best shitty feeling in the world.
if a man runs with man is called as "Race" but if a man runs towards God is called as "Grace".
When we really understand it, we will always find grace offensive. And that's exactly the way it should be. If we start to feel comfortable with grace, then we've lost what it really means.
Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.
To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.
When we appropriate God's great enablers-His grace and His peace-we can achieve gentleness and calmness even during hard times.
Heaven is the only place where prayers are not made.
Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.
Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers)
As above in consciousness, so below in matter
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.