For me, college wasn't a breeze. I had 8 o'clock classes, I worked from 3 to 11 at the Settlement House. On weekends, if Northwestern Bell needed me, I'd troubleshoot for them, and I had a steady girl. God!
Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.
God is best known in not knowing him.
Be happy. God gave you a breath to breathe every day. You don't need to be mad about nothin'.
If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.
Nothing is impossible for God.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
It's amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they're doing. I've learned to take notice of those things and if it's something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.
It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.
As you submit to God more and more, you will get accustomed to being nourished by the power of truth. He is so holy that He cannot lie. God reveals His truth to His people through the Holy Spirit.
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.
I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
I've said numerous times that I play to have a stage that people will listen to, and I pray to God that I do right by my influence.
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
