“How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.”
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“God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.”
“You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.”
“God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.”
“Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.”
“I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.”
“A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.”
“I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.”
“Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.”
“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.”
“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.”
“One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.”
“Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.”
“There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.”
“Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.”
“If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.”
“Assuredly, Loving Souls, you should go to God with all humility and respect, humbling yourselves in His presence, especially when you remember your past ingratitude and sins.”
“Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.”
“God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.”
“I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.”
“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”
“Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.”
“For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.”