God quotes
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"God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world."
"When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it."
"Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful."
"When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers."
"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
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"God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does."
"I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor."
"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones."
"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."
"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me."
"We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children."
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
"If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
"Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God."
"Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him."
"The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life."
"Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . ."
"I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in."
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
"The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
"We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people."
"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!"
