If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to and thank God we are efficient.
If you want to be original just try being yourself because God has never made two people exactly alike.
You know it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested not because Jesus was resurrected.
There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness a covenant between radically different persons male and female and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen a covenant between radically different partners.
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because like Spinoza's God it won't love us in return.
As the poet said 'Only God can make a tree ' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
God lets you be successful because he trusts you that you will do the right thing with it. Now does he get disappointed often? All the time because people get there and they forget how they got it.
That God cannot lie is no advantage to your argument because it is no proof that priests can not or that the Bible does not.
If I am capable of grasping God objectively I do not believe but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
By our Heavenly Father and only because of God only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly we do not go without arguments and as I call them fights and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman without a husband.
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it though that the critics think you can't do it.
I say don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.
We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
There cannot be a God because if there were one I could not believe that I was not He.
He didn't come out of my belly but my God I've made his bones because I've attended to every meal and how he sleeps and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.