Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.
I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.
I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember, someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.