I think all music is a gift from God.
I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.