God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.
Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.' (Koran 573)
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Love God incessantly.
I was having a real tough time in my personal life. I had been involved in an abusive relationship were I was beaten almost nearly to death. I came to a fork in the road in my life were I could go down the path of destruction or salvation. And by the grace of God boxing came into my life.
Hey Den My God, Dennis. Look at me now. Who would've ever thought
Write down that they hope they serve God; and write God first,
for God defend but God should go before such villains!
I have always thought of Christmas as a good time a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
O God, I seek Your Sanctuary O my Sovereign Lord King, please unite me with Yourself
Has there not come to you the story of those who disbelieved before, then tasted the evil result of their conduct, and they had a painful punishment That is because there came to them their apostles with clear arguments, but they said Shall mortals guide us So they disbelieved and turned back, and Allah does not stand in need (of anything), and Allah is Self-sufficient, Praised.
Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to hell the door of dark; Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor.
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.
The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
God does not live in structures of stone or brick. He lives in soft hearts warm with sympathy and fragrant with universal love.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice it first despises God, And then fears men.
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Whom the gods love dies young.
It is not enough to behave reverently we must feel in our hearts reverence for our Heavenly Father and our Lord, Jesus Christ. Reverence flows from our admiration and respect for Deity. It is something we feel inside our hearts no matter what is going on around us. It is also a personal responsibility. We cannot blame others for disturbing our reverent attitudes.
We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. To us, as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, there is one God, even the Father. With Jesus, we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God.
It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search into the hidden mysteries of God
When your message resonates with the people, then you know your message is from God, and we are building this movement in the interest of all of God's people.
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Please be kind and compassionate, O Lord of my life I am helpless, and I seek Your Sanctuary, God. Please, give me Your Hand, and lift me up, out of the deep dark pit. I have no clever tricks at all.
Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.
So I went forward in my life, and thanks to God, the Lord has always taken me by the hand, guided me even in difficult situations.
In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.
And among men there is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge and without guidance and without an illuminating book, Turning away haughtily that he may lead (others) astray from the way of Allah for him is disgrace in this world, and on the day of resurrection We will make him taste the punishment of burning This is due to what your two hands have sent before, and because Allah is not in the least unjust to the servants.
But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end.
God does not play dice with the universe He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules and who smiles all the time.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.
If we turn our spiritual eyes towards the Son, meaning the Son of God, we will see the sparkle of the gems of life.
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clichT-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. God loves a cheerful lover.
The winds of God are always blowing, but you must set the sails.
And He it is Who held back their hands from you and your hands from them in the valley of Mecca after He had given you victory over them and Allah is Seeing what you do.
There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods ...
A second miracle is happening in the case of Elian, ... It seems that God is guiding us.
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture. . .
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body and be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
God gave us the mind so that we can know him.
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