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This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.

Walter Ralston Martin

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.

War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

Martha Gellhorn

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

James Martineau

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Anna Julia Cooper

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.

Brennan Manning

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

When my babe was born, they said it was premature. It weighed only four pounds; but God let it live.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency... Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Harold Macmillan

Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit,
But God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

Once more, never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.

At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

R. G. Collingwood