Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.
You never lose the love of God. Guilt is the warning that temporarily you are out of touch.
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.
Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.
A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself.
You will not find one Godly man who came out of an affliction worse than when he went into it. Though for a little while he was shaken, yet, at last, he was better for an affliction. But, a great many Godly men have been worse for their prosperity.
A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.
God talks to His people-to each one of us-through His Word, through the counsel of godly friends, and through the Holy Spirit.
Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?
If you are godly it has been because you have been made godly.
Most people do not realize that there was a paid chaplain in Congress even before the Revolutionary War ended.
The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us...Prayer is simply asking God to do for us what he has promised us he will do if we ask him.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
The time you spend alone with God will transform your character and increase your devotion. Then your integrity and godly behavior in an unbelieving world will make others long to know the Lord.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.
He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly side of things. After Tyson the Cyclops adopted him as a brother, Percy decided that that was about as far as he wanted to extend the family.
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