God Quotes - Page 104

If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Faith in God is to be demonstrated, not defined.

Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God.

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

God is silent. Now if only man would shut up.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Most people in the world believe that if there is a God, you relate to God by being good. Most religions are based on that principle, though there are a million different variations on it...But they all have the same logic: If I perform, if I obey, I’m accepted. The gospel of Jesus is not only different from that but diametrically opposed to it: I’m fully accepted in Jesus Christ, and therefore I obey.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

For one pain endured with joy, we shall love the good God more forever.

A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.

I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

I had never believed in the sacred nature of literature. God had died when I was fourteen.