When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

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

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

When in doubt, don’t.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

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

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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

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

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

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

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

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

God always wants us to be growing.

Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

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.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

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.

If we have an atom that is in an excited state and so is going to emit a photon, we cannot say when it will emit the photon. It has a certain amplitude to emit the photon at any time, and we can predict only a probability for emission; we cannot predict the future exactly.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

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.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

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!

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

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

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.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

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

God’s desire is that we excel.