god

"It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody’s out there."

"The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness."

"Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him."

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

"God's Final Message to His Creation:'We apologize for the inconvenience."

"God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes."

"We need god to prosper those without him will not."

"I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him."

"I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me."

"Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God."

"Define the word exist, and you'll know whether God exists."

"The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)"

"We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls."

"You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?"

"If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too."

"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love."

"And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention."

"Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true."