For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn, what God is.
But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
The world sees in our conduct, in our behaviour, the proof that we are the real children of God.
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.