And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
I say, If everybody in this house lives where it's God first, friends and family second and you third, we won't ever have an argument.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.
And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.