We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is.
A true understanding of who God is, who we are, and the missionary task should drive us to our knees and keep us there.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.
I think the biggest single improvement, or change, that a person could make in one's life would be to come to a deeper understanding, a more expanded awareness of who they are, of who God is, of what God wants, of what life is really about, of the purpose of life.
Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.
To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.
One of my favorite sights is to look across a room packed with people with their Bibles in their laps, studying who God is and what God has said- after midnight.
And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is.
We don't get to decide who God is.
God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.
Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.
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