No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.
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REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned .... whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
And they turned around and leased it to The Assembly Of God Churches - their headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri. They leased it to them for the first year. Then, after the first year, they will donate it to the church.
You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
I believe in the sun even if it isn't shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.
And the god laughed and cried.
And man has actually invented God. And whats strange, what would be marvellous, is not that God should really exist the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man.
In this job, I always felt I could do the work for the glory of God and the good of our country, and particularly our poor. I want to continue to serve and make a difference, and St. Vincent College gives me that chance.
O you who believe obey Allah and obey the Apostle and those in authority from among you then if you quarrel about anything, refer it to Allah and the Apostle, if you believe in Allah and the last day this is better and very good in the end.
I keep having to tell myself, Oh my God, we won the national championship every once in a while. Honestly, just being back on campus and getting the recognition from the student body, and the people around the community, thats a constant reminder, but just to actually comprehend what we just did, it hits you every once in a while, and its just a really good feeling.
The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.
With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.
It is not difficult to write in Spanish the Spanish language is a gift from the gods which we Spaniards take for granted. I take comfort therefore in the belief that you wished to pay tribute to a glorious language and not to the humble writer who uses it for everything it can express the joy and the wisdom of Mankind, since literature is an art form of all and for all, although written without deference, heeding only the voiceless, anonymous murmur of a given place and time.
The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
In our society, we're having a huge problem with respect and appreciation of people and their art and talent. Everyone praises the almighty dollar. But the almighty dollar will never be what a friend or artist can be.
'Mormonism' has made me all I am and the grace, the power, and the wisdom of God will make me all that I ever will be, either in time or in eternity.
I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it. ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi symbolic of the Great Mother and associated with birth, the feminine principle, the universal womb, the prima materia, the waters of fertility and refreshment and the fountain of life. The dreaming sites, as they are called, have also been associated with visions, healing, and other paranormal experiences. In ancient Greece, for example, there were more than three-hundred medical centers placed at water sources, where patients experienced healing.
O you who believe remember Allah, remembering frequently, And glorify Him morning and evening.
I did bless him at the end of our conversation. I said to him, 'Do you want the forgiveness of God' He said, 'Yes.' I said, 'You have to ask for it.' I gave him absolution and said, 'Now go to the court and tell them everything that you've told me.' And that is exactly what he did. He made a public declaration of everything he said to me,
If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
Deal gently with the people, and be not harsh cheer them and condemn them not. Ye will meet with many 'people of the Book' who will question thee, what is the key to Heaven Reply to them (the key to Heaven) to testify to the truth of God, and to do good work.
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself -- something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
Grace is when God gives us what we don't deserve and Mercy is when God doesn't give us what we do deserve.
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
God knows what people will do if they're handed 60,000 at retirement.
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.
Every race of people since time began who have attempted to describe God by words or painting, or by carvings, have conveyed their idea that the God who made them and shaped their destinies was symbolized in themselves. . .
God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?
I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for Ohhh my God, you're thin.
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species Are we not sustained by the same power, supported by the same food. . . . And should we not then enjoy the same liberty. . .
Inscription in lobby of the S. F. Bowser Co. office building, Fort Wayne, Ind. I acknowledge God's great help in all things, of which this splendid office is one. One which all our office employees can enjoy. God help us to be grateful.
Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God.
We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.
The prime minister has chosen to acknowledge publicly the sovereignty of God and the claim of God on her life. Hers is the challenge to live up to that claim.
God will forgive me. It's his job. Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m tier.
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
My religion is like clouds dropping much rain some of them falling on pure, favorable soil, cause grass to grow some of them fall in hollows from which mankind are benefited, some fall on high lands from which benefit is not derived then the two first are like the persons acquainted with the religion of God and instructing others and the last like the person not regarding it nor accepting the right path.
DRY LAND All around me your death like some great ocean rages, wave after crashing wave till the cliffs of my arms give way to defenseless shore and I lie blackened against the sand. My hair streams like weeds about my head and pulls me, as surely as the moon pulls her tides, to the depths of earth. In darkness, I am swallowed. In darkness, I remember Jonah... that God prepared for him a black fish and after three days and three nights dear God, dry land appeared.
Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation and during the time of two or three years, she next under God, was still the instrument to preserve this colony from death, famine and utter confusion which if in those times, had once been dissolved, Virginia might have lain as it was at our first arrival to this day.
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.