The God Quotes
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.
... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.
Heaven opened and the water hammered down, reviving the reluctant old well, greenmossing the pigless pigsty, carpet bombing still, tea-colored puddles the way memory bombs still, tea-colored minds.
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
Every good marriage must be a friendship between two people who are willing to sacrifice for the other person.
For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.
Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth
Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.
Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.
Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.
For a God that created everything, it is mystifying why he created so much competition.
The best book is not one that informs merely, but one that stirs the reader up to inform himself.
Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.
Be in love with the moments of your life.
For all the sirens, game-show buzzers, and drum-rolls of life, it is the nature of men to die quietly.
If we continually let go of the moments, we let go of who we are and we lose ourselves.
Let’s not only take great photos, but let’s make great photos with our lives.
He could do only one thing at a time. If he held her, he couldn't kiss her. If he kissed her, he couldn't see her. If he saw her, he couldn't feel her.
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.
I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.
Committing suicide so as not to be murdered is the worst reason I've ever heard of to die.
When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?
The doorbells of Heaven were designed for the prayers of the poor.
People ugly from ignorance and broken from being poor.
They sat on the boarding house porch and saw the sun plunge into the same crack in the earth from which the night emerged.
God wants you to always call Him not because you need Him but because you love Him. Matthew 22:37
No more the victory of spirit over matter and definitely not the victory of matter over spirit – the next stage is not one overcoming the other, but a merge.
Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.
In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer...
Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain
When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.
One may be "outside" the church, but one can never be "outside" of God's love.
Each step you take from Jesus Christ, brings you closer to hell.
If you lose God's paradise in Heaven, then you never existed.
Now, women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.
It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different.
God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.
Pheoby's hungry listening helped Janie to tell her story.