I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.
It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.
But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.
There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.