2,687 quotes found
“Money is an inanimate object. It can do good works or bad works depending on the hands that wield it, and the hearts governing those hands.”
“People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you”
“The first time I died, I didn't see God. No light at the end of the tunnel. No haloed angels. No dead grandparents. To be fair, I probably wasn't a solid shoo-in for Heaven. But, honestly, I kind o...”
“As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Sp...”
“Everything you do is connected to who you are as a person and, in turn, creates the person you are becoming. Everything you do affects those you love. All of life is covenant.Imbedded in the idea o...”
“God is a person, and his universe reflects his personhood. The closer something is to the character of God, the more it reflects him and the less it can be measured. Things such as integrity, beaut...”
“I regard myself as the most wretched of all men, stinking and covered with sores, and as one who has committed all sorts of crimes against his King. Overcome by remorse, I confess all my wickedness...”
“...I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.”
“Our God Is Alive and Well. Sorry About Yours.”
“Prayer is asking God to incarnate, to get dirty in your life. Yes, the eternal God scrubs floors. For sure we know he washes feet. So take Jesus at his word. Ask him. Tell him what you want. Get di...”
“When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong...”
“As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately invo...”
“For the briefest of instants, a miles-wide hole appeared from the middle of the Earth to the top of the sky. The Moho rang like a tuning fork in harmonic response to the billion megaton impact. Sei...”
“God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody”
“Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail.”
“Adam and Eve had first-hand empirical evidence of Gods existence. He walked in the Garden with them. Their problem was that God told them they could not eat of a certain tree. p. 113”
“I believe in a benevolent God not because He created the Grand Canyon or Michelangelo, but because He gave us snacks.”
“Marvin: La necrofilia ce labbiamo sepolta dentro. Uno dei miei libri, Storia della tortura e della morte, parla delle atrocit che abbiamo commesso in nome della giustizia e della vendetta. Spesso ...”
“They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we're still left behind with all the questions they couldn't answer.”
“The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as...”
