If there were no God it would be necessary to invent him.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
For where God built a church there the Devil would also build a chapel.
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.
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?
There cannot be a God because if there were one I could not believe that I was not He.
I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency but He wants to invade your Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday.
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.
You don't look out there for God something in the sky you look in you.
There was my name up in lights. I said 'God somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was in lights. And I sat there and said 'Remember you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven and if it takes my dog being there I believe he'll be there.
Where love is there God is also.
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing but only by God the Creator made known through Jesus.
There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God to Christ and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God 'Thy will be done ' and those to whom God says 'All right then have it your way.'
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself because it is not there. There is no such thing.
I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
The Bible is a revelation of the mind and will of God to men. Therein we may learn what God is.
God gets you to the plate but once your there your on your own.
Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.