god

"The choices we’re working with here are a block universe, where past, present and future all coexist simultaneously and everything has already happened; chaos, where anything can happen and nothing can be predicted because we can’t know all the variables; and a Christian universe in which God made everything and it’s all here for a purpose but we have free will anyway."

"We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God."

"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."

"Christianity is not about how much faith you have. Its about Who your faith is in."

"The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd."

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are."

"Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in."

"If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I would sell my sould to make it end. If there was something Higher that controlled out f***ing fates, I would tell it to take my fate and shove it up its fucking ass. Shove it hard and far, you motherf***er. Please end. Please end. Please end."

"Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known."

"Do your best and let God do the rest."

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

"I seemed to hear God saying, "Put down your gun and we'll talk."

"God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice."

"It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60)."

"I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me."

"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis."

"Dylan Jerome,"the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him."

"Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes."

"I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did."