“Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
“The best way to know God is to love many things.”
“We are never defeated unless we give up on God.”
“God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”
“God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.”
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.”
“If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.”
“Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”
“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.”
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.”
“It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.”
“The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.”
“We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.”
“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.”
“Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.”
“Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?”
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.”
“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.”
“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.”
“I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.”
“The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.”
“All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.”