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.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

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

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

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.

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

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

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

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.

Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

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.

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

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‚I love you.‘

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I have always believed in God.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

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.

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.

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

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

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

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.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

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.

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

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

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

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.

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.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

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.

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

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

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

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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

To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.

God made me and broke the mold.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.