As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

God wants to bless us where we are.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

God to me is love.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

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.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

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.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

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.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

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.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

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.

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.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I never had to choose a subject – my subject rather chose me.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

God always wants us to be growing.