god

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

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

"You and I were created by God to be so much more than normal…Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. In the end it’s a loser’s game, because we never become who God created us to be by trying to be like everybody else."

"You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand."He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?"

"The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure."

"Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon."

"I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man."

"If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse."

"Our intellect is not intended to be an end in itself, but only a means to the very mind of God."

"I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have."

"CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!"

"With God, all things are possible. Matthew 19:26"

"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 best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up."

"The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

"Because you’re a creation of God, you reflect the Divine qualities of creativity, wisdom, and love."

"Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are."

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God."

"Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic."

"Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen."