The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
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.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
God has no religion.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That’s how it often is. God’s voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the…
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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