A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn’t, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

There is a power in God’s gospel beyond all description.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Heaven means to be one with God.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

We hand folks over to God’s mercy, and show none ourselves.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said it was a miracle. It would have been a miracle had God stopped the earthquake. More wonderful was that a load of evolved monkeys got together to save the life of a child that wasn’t theirs.

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.