When we place our dependence in God, we are unencumbered, and we have no worry. In fact, we may even be reckless, insofar as our part in the production is concerned. This confidence, this sureness of action, is both contagious and an aid to the perfect action. The rest is in the hands of God – and this is the same God, gentlemen, who has won all His battles up to now

The laws of God, the laws of man,
He may keep that will and can;
Now I: let God and man decree
Laws for themselves and not for me.

And, what is worse, the reader often shares the writer’s prejudices, and is far too well pleased with his conclusions to examine either his premises or his reasoning. Stand on a barrel in the streets of Bagdad, and say in a loud voice, ‘Twice two is four, and ginger is hot in the mouth, therefore Mohammed is the prophet of God’, and your logic will probably escape criticism; or, if anyone should by chance criticise it, you could easily silence him by calling him a Christian dog.

And naked to the hangman’s noose
The morning clocks will ring
A neck God made for other use
Than strangling in a string.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I’m going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

If things happen it’s because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it’s God’s will that I be there, there I will be.

There is a duty to improve the lot of others. Charity isn’t personal, it’s public. It’s owed not just to God and salvation but to the nation: the idea that America itself deserves its citizens’ charity, not because it is poor but because it could always be richer.

Gobbledygook could be a word invented by God to describe speaking in tongues

But it is possible, it is possible: the old grief, by a great mystery of human life, gradually passes into quiet, tender joy; instead of young, ebullient blood comes a mild, serene old age: I bless the sun’s rising each day and my heart sings to it as before, but now I love its setting even more, its long slanting rays, and with them quiet, mild, tender memories, dear images from the whole of a long and blessed life–and over all is God’s truth, moving, reconciling, all-forgiving!

There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.

Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.

The more you succeed in loving, the more you’ll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul.

Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.

Is man merely a mistake of God’s? Or God merely a mistake of man?

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say, and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

God made us. He’s in charge of everything, right? If He didn’t like us, why didn’t he change us?

I don’t know what in the world happened. I don’t know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just – the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me… All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

I think through education, belief in God, and good engineering, our children become a lot better at what they’re doing than we did, and that starts with the very first sign of life on the face of this earth.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

Heaven is a ceaseless approaching to God through Christ. The longer we are in the heaven of bliss, the more and still more of glory will be opened to us.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

God is God because he remembers.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.

I do not believe that God ever created a man and then got so “put out” over the job that He damned him.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart” “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.” “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.

Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God’s tapestry

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

God does not have problems. Only plans.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

God’s viewpoint is sometimes different from ours – so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things….In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.

In God’s faithfulness lies eternal security.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world.

There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.

Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God’s great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”

There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think what a waste of energy. If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that’s fine by me, believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that’s fine by me, believe away.

God’s not on our side because he hates idiots, also.

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God

I’m not religious, and I’m not a believer, but I think we have lost something in not having the old man (God) around

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.

The man with Gold can help others and bring them to a beautiful paradise.

You are not supposed to fear any action that will go in the service of God.

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Is not the gospel its own sign and wonder? Is not this a miracle of miracles, that ‘God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish’? Surely that precious word, ‘Whosoever will, let him come and take the water of life freely’ and that solemn promise, ‘Him that cometh unto Me, I will in no wise cast out,’ are better than signs and wonders! A truthful Saviour ought to be believed. He is truth itself. Why will you ask proof of the veracity of One who cannot lie?

The mind of God is greater than all the minds of men, so let all men leave the gospel just as God has delivered it unto us.

So, you who wish to have an exemplary character before God and before men, remember that, if ill company does not burn you to your hurt, it is sure to blacken you by damaging your reputation.

Tested faith brings experience. You would never have believed your own weakness had you not needed to pass through trials. And you would never have known God’s strength had His strength not been needed to carry you through.

When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it.

If God had begun saving us because we were good, He would of course leave off saving us when we were not good.

God has great leisure. He lives not merely in time, he inhabiteth eternity. A thousand years are to him but as one day, so he can afford to wait.

When we grow old our God will still be the I AM, abiding evermore the same. Hoar hairs tell of our decay, but He decayeth not. When we cannot carry a burden and can hardly carry ourselves, the LORD will carry us.

I bear my witness that the worst days I have ever had have turned out to be my best days. And when God has seemed most cruel to me he has then been most kind. If there is anything in this world for which I would bless him more than for anything else it is for pain and affliction. I am sure that in these things the richest tenderest love has been manifested to me.

God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.

You won’t find God at the Seminary and you won’t find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God’s responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have – even if it’s no more than a sack lunch.

When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles.

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Make a plan now to keep a daily appointment with God.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God’s Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you!

This will not be easy because it doesn’t come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible…Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

The more a leader is in the habit of demanding from his men, the surer he will be that his demands will be answered.

But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

We are living in what the Greeks called the right time for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods.

Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom, he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown—ignotum per ignotius—that is by the name of God.

The gods have become our diseases.

I think us bad b*s is a gift from God.

God will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist’s shop

The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become – because He made us. He invented us. He invented all the different people that you and I were intended to be…It is when I turn to Christ, when I give up myself to His personality, that I first begin to have a real personality of my own.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn’t mean that I’m immune. It doesn’t mean that I’m immortal

If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.

Nothing, nothing, nothing is better than sex, it is what God created us to do

Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God.

God loves you. God doesn’t want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again.

My life here has gotten better, much better. God has not forsaken me, and He never will

God willing I would like to keep on going. I listened to [blues singer] Alberta Hunter in New York a few years ago. She was eighty-two at the time and it was really wonderful to hear the experience in this woman’s voice. You knew that she knew what she was talking about and when she said ‘God bless you’ at the end of her set, you really did feel blessed.