Quotes Tagged "god"

Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue.

God delays, but doesn't forget.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing Thee?

God is clever, but not dishonest.

Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.

The Father most tender, Father of all, my immense God-I His atom.

What is there in man so worthy of honor and reverence as this, that he is capable of contemplating something higher than his own reason, more sublime than the whole universe- that Spirit which alone is self-subsis-tent, from which all truth proceeds, without which there is no truth?

I thank the goodness and the grace Which on my birth have smiled, And made me, in these Christian days, A happy Christian child.

A consciousness of God releases the greatest power of all.

Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.

Talking about God is not at all the same thing as experiencing God, or acting out God through our lives.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness.

God has not promised skies always blue, flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; God has not promised sun without rain, joy without sorrow, peace without pain. But God has promised strength for the day, rest for the labor, light for the way, Grace for the trials, help from above, unfailing sympathy, undying love.

Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

God is no enemy to you. He asks no more than that He hear you call Him "Friend."

Deep down in every man, woman and child, is the fundamental idea of God. It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there. For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself.

Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient; they failed utterly.... Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all our activities.

Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.