Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth we fully flower in heaven.
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
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.
The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
And I've come to the place where I believe that there's no way to solve these problems, these issues - there's nothing that we can do that will solve the problems that we have and keep the peace, unless we solve it through God, unless we solve it in being our highest self. And that's a pretty tall order.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque.
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.
It is no use to grumble and complain It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.