All Quotes By Tag: God

“In biblical Greek the word “repent” comes from a military term similar to the command “about face.” In…sermons, repentance is all about “turning away’ from sin, and certainly repentance would include an element of that. However, the deeper flavor of his word is less about turning away from something and more about turning toward something. As much as the word “repent” makes many of us recoil, what if it is enjoining us to turn away from our fear of God and to turn toward the love of God? what if we simply confess that God is love, and then put a period at the end of the sentence? God is love. Period.”

“You know what Mrs. Shure, the librarian, told me?” “What’s that, Theo?” his father asked.“God does not make junk.”Ted stared into his tumbler, the dwindling ice cubes sloshing at the bottom of the glass. His fidget finger tapped at the glass. Knocking the ice against the wall of the tumbler and turning his face upward, Ted looked at Theo.“Therefore, I am not junk,” said Theo. “Yuh.”“And I came from you. You are not junk either, Dad. Just because you didn’t shoot a gun in France or just because you didn’t become an engineer, doesn’t mean you are any less than any other man. Dad, both you and I have made mistakes, but we are not junk.”

“For pre-eminently a divine image, resembling God, is the soul of a righteous man; in which, through obedience to the commands, as in a consecrated spot, is enclosed and enshrined the Leader of mortals and of immortals, King and Parent of what is good, who is truly law, and right, and eternal Word, being the one Saviour individually to each, and in common to all.”

“I can imagine all sorts of things. But can I imagine a God who insists that we imagine the impossible so that the impossible need not remain imagination?”

“Dad might think being gay is a sin, but he sees it more as a sign of human weakness, not Satanic interference. At least, I don’t think he does. I figure it’s between me and the Big Guy upstairs. We used to go to church a lot, and I never heard on word to make me think I’m some sort of adbomination. If God is in fact responsible for creating me, He made me just how He wants me. And if He loved every bit of his handiwork, He loves me. And if all that is nothing more than mythology, what harm is there in believing the stories anyway? When I pray- or meditate, or consider the universe, whatever you want to call it- I find comfort. Self-acceptance. Understanding, at least in some world.”

“Beauty is in everything.Ugliness is just in us.”

“The moment you fear God, He is not God!”

“America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety.”

“The thoughts of non-believers of God do not have the landing-place. Let them fly; that’s their ending.”

“We may wish for answers, but God rarely gives us answers. Instead, God gathers us up into soft, familiar arms and says, “Let me tell you a story.”

“After enough failed attempts to rescue myself, I finally realized that I am my own worst first responder.”

“What might shift in my heart if God were to unveil my eyes and show me that despite my fears and uncertainties, I’m actually surrounded by his powerful protection and presence?”

“Received much knowledge throughout the yearSermons are absorbed pulpit to earSituations test your walkTribulations make you talkApply wisdom to all you hold dear- A portion of ‘Applications”

“It is only in freedom that you can find out what is true, what is God, not through any belief, because your very belief projects what you think ought to be God, what you think ought to be true.”

“It is not our worship that makes God, so great. It is because He is so great, that we worship Him.”