The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
God preordained for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice a part of the human race without any merit of their own to eternal salvation and another part in just punishment of their sin to eternal damnation.
If you do not accuse each other God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin I do many things to break down superstition and I will break it down.
Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
When you have a good mother and no father God kind of sits in. It's not enough but it helps.
Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.
Because wherever I am today I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course two very special women my mother and my wife.
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels but because they do not expect holiness from one another but from God only.
God gave me a voice to sing with and when you have that what other gimmick is there?
God's plan for enlarging His kingdom is so simple - one person telling another about the Savior. Yet we're busy and full of excuses. Just remember someone's eternal destiny is at stake. The joy you'll have when you meet that person in heaven will far exceed any discomfort you felt in sharing the gospel.
God has been very good to me for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it I always see some other virtue in that person.
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time at all times who suffers harm done to others whose greatest passion is compassion whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
God has two dwellings one in heaven and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other to let their souls blend in a soft whisper so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can as it were creep into God.
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?
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need the remainder is needed by others.
The real democratic American idea is not that every man shall be on a level with every other man but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him without hindrance.
If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and as I call them fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman without a husband.
When elected officials abandon our environment and ruin our natural resources public health is endangered. I know the importance of providing a clean environment for our children I have attended more than one funeral for a child who has died from an asthma attack.