Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
I often feel that my days in New York City, that I was here for five years, didn't get one job, went on a thousands of auditions and literally did not get a job on a soap, not a movie, not TV, not nothing, although I did do some commercials thank God.
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.
Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.
Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.
He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.
Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.
The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.