Quotes on God

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I might suffer. The gods throw the dice, and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.

The moment I realized God existed, I knew that I could not do othewise than to live for Him Alone...Faith strips the mask from the world and renders meaningless such words as anxiety, danger and fear, so the believer goes through life calmly and peacefully, with profound joy--like a child, hand and hand with his mother.

Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.

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

God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

Obedience to the call of Christ nearly always costs everything to two people- the one who is called, and the one who loves that one.

A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god but a great rock and the sun a hot rock.

When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!

You can call it godliness - it IS godliness. It is the highest, the greatest flowering of being. But it is not a God somewhere outside you. You cannot pray to it. You can be it, but you cannot pray to it, because it is not separate.