God save us from people who mean well.
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell.
Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
God has no religion.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.