Quotes Tagged "god"

Heaven is where Christmas came from. And if we give it permission to do so, someday it will take us back there with it.

Jesus died a criminal’s death surrounded by a handful of followers who refused to do anything other than a chase a God who, through His death at that very moment, was chasing them.

On that first Christmas morning, the cries of this newborn were ignored by a world off to greater agendas from which this child would rise to save us.

I don’t know what is more frightening: a creature on a small planet worshipping itself and its world as if infinity did not exist, or a creature who burns its fellow beings because the infinite does exist.

One of the things that vexes me to the point of near insanity is understanding the message of Christmas and realizing the potency of this message to transform the worst of our lives so that we can become the best of our ourselves, to shift the momentum of entire cultures so that the world is brilliantly enriched by each instead of destroyed by all, and to handily touch the hem of history itself so that history is changed in the touching. And while all of these are ours for the taking, I continue to watch the mindless hoards trudge past these things in order to embrace everything that is not the ‘everything’ of these gifts. And so I pray that God would grant them a heart ready to be captured by the ‘everything’ of Christmas.

He always hoped God would provide him with salvation, someday. He believed that everything he went through was a test of his faith.

Each of us is a kaaranakartha...a conduit, a catalyst, an instrument…and so we only have one role...to be better instruments for divinity to work through us! And we can do that by working humbly, meaningfully, on whatever gives us unadulterated joy and by sharing all that we receive, thereby helping people around us to grow.

Jesus never gives up on you, so don't give up on Him. Don't be God's fairweather friend.

Only the oppressed can receive liberating visions in wretched places. Only those thinking emerges in the context of the struggle against injustice can see God's freedom breaking into unfree conditions and thus granting power to the powerless to fight here and now for the freedom they know to be theirs in Jesus' cross and resurrection.

Thank God! I’m getting tired of working underground. I feel like damn mole.

Mortal man has always sought to reduce the “infinite” into the finite in order to understand it and in doing so has missed the mark completely. It was not until I could see, with the help of modern science, the larger portion of the universe with all it’s myriad stars and galaxies that the enormity of God really struck me,

His expression made me think of old-timey illustrations of god: severely paternal, bestowing the kind of love that weighs and measures before it find you worthy.

Reach into the darkness and pull out the light!

There’s a difference between believing and knowing.

The world waits on us, for decisions must be made with impacts that flutter across time. No series of events can come from more of a change in demeanor. Knowing —not thinking, not believing, but knowing —is what manifests reality.

Separation slithers into the hearts of man to the breaking point where humanity becomes lost and we all take sides to stand against the other, and evil wins. Evil blinds us from walking in another’s shoes, promises us all we desire, including a voice to be heard and a satisfaction of ego and sensation, while our wings flutter and destroy a part of the hope that exists in the netherworld by directing hope’s vibrational healing into a new direction…towards absence and despair with a loss of that same hope.

You drive that hate of love from one life to the next with no recourse, regret, nor redemption of your soul.

Learning to fear God gives way to no fear of anything else

Keep Them Open To God; Your heart, mind, and soul because the floodgates are open, and the water is out. You just never know when grace will seep in.

Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very different kind of power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.