We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

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.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

God’s first creature, which was light.

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.

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.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I do know this… I seem to reach a lot of previously unchurched people. So many people have told me they never went to church until they heard our message of hope that God is a good God who desires to bless those who are faithful and obedient to Him through Jesus Christ.

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

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.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

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.

God to me is love.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

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.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

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.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

God wants to bless us where we are.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

God doesn’t do things halfway. He goes all out! When God does something, it’s not just barely enough, mediocre or lukewarm.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

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.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Libraries raised me.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.

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

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.