In the Old Testament, we are continually told that our good works are not enough, that God has made a provision. This provision is pointed to at every place in the Old Testament.
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
I do not believe in God because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
The Book of Mormon is a second witness of Jesus Christ and a manifestation of the truthfulness of the Prophet Joseph Smith. I love the Prophet Joseph. I love President Gordon B. Hinckley, who is the prophet of God and holds all the keys of the kingdom at this time, keys which prophets have held in uninterrupted succession since Joseph Smith.
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes', like the blues often is.
Gospel music allows us to become closer to God and closer to each other.
I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstream artists start expressing their love for God openly in their concerts and including gospel songs in their concert, and, you know, people started embracing it.
Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels.
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.
I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!
I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.
I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
The secret was to just be cool, stay in God's graces, and work it out.
People who don't know the true character of God - who don't believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger - can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.
There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.
Isn't it interesting that God appears holy when he's gracious?
