The God Quotes

Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.

...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.

God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

The heart of the world is breaking under this load of pride and pretense. There is no release from our burden apart from the meekness of Christ.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

Similitude of the heart is like that of a telephone operator between man and God.

Dust off that Bible. It has the answers you are looking for, and its delights await you.

A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments.

In fact, the Devil is delighted when we spend our time and energy defending the Bible, as long as we do not get around to actually reading the Bible.

While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Advent creates people, new people.

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Love and respect all people. Hate and destroy all faith.

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.

A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.

Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence.

God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life.

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.

To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

They can only kill us once.

Raw I'mma give it to ya, with no trivia. Raw like cocaine straight from Bolivia.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.