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

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

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.

Of the love or hatred God has for the English, I know nothing, but I do know that they will all be thrown out of France, except those who die there.

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

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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 shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

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

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

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

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.