In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.
What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.
Oh my God, I sweat so much! You have to keep deodorant in your purse and use those deodorising wipes that cool you off a bit.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
It is good to have an intellectual awareness of our dependence upon God - to understand how great He is and how very small we are in His sight.
From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction.
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.
The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
