God Quotes - Page 77

That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an aunt and a godmother, and family is very much in the circle of my vocation.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

Love people for the sake of God, but never love God for the sake of people.

So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.

How happy I am to see myself as imperfect and to be in need of God's mercy.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else.

God's love is a gift that can make you forget yourself at times. The Scottish writer George MacDonald said, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." God loves us as we are right now! That's one of the things I'm most grateful for. I love the freedom to be myself in God. I pray that a year from now, five years from now, I will be a godlier woman, but I know God won't love me any more than he does right this minute.

The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.

God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will.

Guru, God and Self are One

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

How many people have you made homesick for God?

We love God with our mind by taking the time to fill our mind with the Word.

Ultimately, one of the best ways to take care of our souls is to build a society that supports rather than undermines our highest moral and spiritual intuitions and inclinations. Yet, building that society can never be divided from the daily practices through which we live out our ethical and spiritual lives, both in the way we treat others around us, and in the way we nourish the God within us.

This is true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God.

The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

I have discovered a few things that help me when God seems silent... - Press in to God when you want to pull away. - Praise God out loud when you want to get lost in complaints. - Put yourself in the company of truth (reading Scriptures and surrounding yourself with positive, Godly people.)