“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
“Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.”
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.”
“Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
“God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.”
“The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
“Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”
“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”
“Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.”
“Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.”
“I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.”
“God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.”
“Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.”
“I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.”
“When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.”
“It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.”
“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”