“It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.”
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“Faith is different from proof the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.”
“Forgiveness is God's command.”
“I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.”
“Each one prays to God according to his own light.”
“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
“It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.”
“I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.”
“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.”
“Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.”
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”
“It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.”
“God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”
“God helps those who help themselves.”
“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.”
“He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.”
“You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.”
“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”
“It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.”
“A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.”
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
“Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?”