The Lord is God. God is Holy.
Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.
Jesus said, 'Enter into My rest' and let God do what He does best
I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when...
Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease - where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there...
God's definition of what matters is pretty straightforward. He measures our lives by how we love.
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that...
"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."
He had what we often lack - the maturity to see that faith isn't something you either have or don't have, but something that ebbs and flows in the life and soul of every individual. Doubt isn't the...
Truly enlightened people never seek to be like others, but rather strive to be superior to their own selves.
The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of...
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious he is not.
Sociologists have a theory of the looking - glass self. You become what the most important person in your life {wife, father, boss, etc.} thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed...
'R'hllor, come to us in our darkness,' she called. 'Lord of Light, we offer you these false gods, these seven who are one, and him the enemy. Take them and cast your light upon us, for the night is...
The heart's transformation is not attained through the mind - it's attained through surrender, authenticity, forgiveness, faith, honesty, acceptance, vulnerability, humility, willingness, nonjudgment,...
Human beings may separate things into as many piles as we wish - separating spirit from flesh, sacred from secular, church from world. But we should not be surprised when God does not recognize the...
I do believe that God is with us even when we're at our craziest and that this goodness guides, provides, and protects.
We should want Him more than anything. If we seek Him first, then all other things will be added to our lives.
Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you" {NKJV}. Just
With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the...
The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us. . . . For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not...
... only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains - claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom...
My uncle is the natives' usual name for the tiger, they believing that the soul of each of their ancestors is lodged for eternity in the body of some member of the cat tribe.
A true leader not only demands submission; he is an example of submission by submitting to the Lord and to those in authority over him. Everything
Pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity;
We were seekers. You are that which is sought, Joshua. You are the source. The end is divinity, in the beginning is the word. You are the word.
Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "Beautiful boys."
It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own - not that for which I erred, but the itself. Base, falling from Your firmament to utter destruction - not seeking anything through the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...