God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
God never made His work for man to mend.
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.
If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
If you need me to tell you that if you serve God, you'll get a Mercedes, you're lost.
Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.
Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
Thankfully now, through the merciful hand of God, I do perceive and have been fully reinformed of his omnipotence. It is truly a love supreme.
I would say that I am a poor Christian; I'm not a believer. It was this idea very early in my life that life on Earth, nature or man could not be a creation of a merciful God.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.
If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love.
God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
The truth is that you can only come to know God when you give up the past and the future in your mind and merge totally into the now, because God is always here now.
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
