"If you reject God's commanding word, you will not receive God's gracious word."
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"The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder."
"To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them."
"God has many names, though He is only one Being."
"The gods too are fond of a joke."
"Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood."
"The cistern contains: The fountain overflows."
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
"The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
"Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted."
"What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things."
"Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol."
"A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man."
"To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd."
"I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism."
"God's reckless grace is our greatest hope."
"There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace."
"I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?"
"The world is God's language to us."