Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place.
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.
Eskimo: 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' Priest: 'No, not if you did not know.' Eskimo: 'Then why did you tell me?'
For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.