Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
A defining reality for me is what Scripture teaches in Hebrews 12, that God is our father, and that a sign that he loves us is that he disciplines us, he takes us through hardship to build character in us that could not be shaped apart from difficulty.
Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!
It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
I know God's voice. I've seen God's hand. If the Lord is my helper, why should I be afraid?
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
God helps those who help themselves.
I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
We are under God's power, and we can do nothing but by the power of God, and woe shall hereafter be to us if we abuse this power.
I do not believe in God, angels and the hereafter.
Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.
By God's grace, the only property my parents gave me was a good body. No BP, no sugar, no hereditary problems. Small build, tight skin.
