He went to church every Sunday and the holidays. He had a lot of faith in God and left everything up to him.
He went to church every Sunday and the holidays. He had a lot of faith in God and left everything up to him.
What I have noticed since then is that when some people have gotten to a certain position in Hollywood, they're afraid to lose it. They protect their position like a beachhead. 'God Don't take this away from me.' And so they start making really safe choices. I don't want to do that. If I go down, I'm going to go down swinging.
He is my brother. I know him. I lived with him for years. I know how much he fears God.
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
I was just hoping that I would still have my son. Which he is, he is still here. He has a long way to recuperate, but he's going to live. Thank God.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.
Lord how many are my foes
How many those
That in arms against me rise
Many are they
That of my life distrustfully thus say,
No help for him in God there lies.
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.
If...you feel that if you could indulge in sin without punishment, yet it would be a punishment of itself and that if you could have the whole world, and abide in it for ever, it would be quite enough misery not to be parted from it for your Godyour Godis what your soul craves after then be of good courage, thou art a child of God.
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart they are meant to be borne they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.
I never truckled I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth.
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering.
The best of persons in God's sight is the best amongst his friends and the best of neighbors near God is the best person in his own neighborhood.
If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God
To the gods of old we'll hasten, blest.
The virtuous soul brides dwell on the virtues of God, they keep their Husband Lord in their remembrance, and they never suffer separation from Him.
The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles.
We should worship as though the deity were present.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like a usurped town to another due, Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov-ed fain, But am betrothed unto your enemy Divorce me, untie or break that knot again Take me to you, imprison me, for I Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
Yet God is so one that He admits of distinction, and so admits of distinction that He still remains unity.
God does not ask about our ability, but our availability.
(As for) those who disbelieve in Our communications, We shall make them enter fire so oft as their skins are thoroughly burned, We will change them for other skins, that they may taste the chastisement surely Allah is Mighty, Wise.
What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
God, if I don't believe I'm cursed.
I think it's a good time for me to reprioritize my personal life and get things figured out there. In life, for years, I've had racing, God and family. I'm trying to get it God, family then racing.
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.
If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.
That is because Allah is the Truth, and that what they call upon besides Him-- that is the falsehood, and because Allah is the High, the Great.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
Is he then who knows that what has been revealed to you from your Lord is the truth like him who is blind Only those possessed of understanding will mind, Those who fulfil the promise of Allah and do not break the covenant, And those who join that which Allah has bidden to be joined and have awe of their Lord and fear the evil reckoning.
He sees the True One pervading the whole world he is imbued with the True One. I have become cool and tranquil, knowing God, through the Guru.
The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
The Lord Himself causes us to meet the Guru, meeting the Almighty True Guru, peace is obtained.
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels, man, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature, and man having been created free, he is freely led. This rule is truly the eternal law and in it we must believe.
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
Let God work through you and there will be no more duty. Let God shine forth. Let God show Himself. Live God, Eat God. Drink God. Breathe God. Realize the Truth and the other things will take care of themselves.
And if Allah should afflict you with harm, then there is none to remove it but He and if He intends good to you there is none to repel His grace He brings it to whom He pleases of His servants and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.
I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
And whoever among you has not within his power ampleness of means to marry free believing women, then (he may marry) of those whom your right hands possess from among your believing maidens and Allah knows best your faith you are (sprung) the one from the other so marry them with the permission of their masters, and give them their dowries justly, they being chaste, not fornicating, nor receiving paramours and when they are taken in marriage, then if they are guilty of indecency, they shall suffer half the punishment which is (inflicted) upon free women. This is for him among you who fears falling into evil and that you abstain is better for you, and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
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