The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
However God had it planned, I'm rockin' with how he do it. He took the steering wheel and I'm letting him drive.
Sometimes I have to run and hide. What I do at home sometimes is, I listen to a CD of the roughness of the ocean. I turn every light off, and I turn the stereo on, and I just go in my mind, cry, talk to God, tell him, 'I'm your child, too.' And I stay in my little solitude until I can get the strength to go outdoors.
Our English language really says if you're not a theist, the only alternative is to be an atheist. What I'm trying to do is develop a language that will enable us to talk about God beyond the, what I think, are sterile categories of theism and atheism.
I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.
If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happened. I wasn't a good steward of the gift that he gave me in this line of work. I abused it, so he took it away.
I feel like God's given me a gift that I want to steward and share with the world.
Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.
We don't own anything that we have. It is all a gift from God and we are just trying to be good stewards of what He gives us.
Work allows us to take care of God's creation and bring glory to Him as His stewards.
'Economics for Everybody' begins with understanding God's principles for organizing His creation and what that means for us as creatures and stewards.
In the New Testament, Jesus talks more about stewardship and finances and management of your life than anything else outside the love of God.
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
To play the leading man in a 'Three Stooges' movie, you've got to think funny. Thank God I think funny.
God has given each one of us a gift greater than a thousand I.B.M. machines. It is called a memory, and everything that passes through our five senses is stored in this faculty.
There is a department of treasury in Heaven, which says God is watching over everything you do and you are storing up eternal treasure that will go so far beyond what we can even imagine.
My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I'm sick or in good health, whether I'm in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am.
God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.
The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God.
