Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.
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Related Dear Child of God, I write these words because we all experience sadness, we all come at times to de... DESMOND TUTU God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present. LITTLE RICHARD The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h... DALLAS WILLARD Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 What art Thou then, my God? What, but the Lor... ST. AUGUSTINE The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that t... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads ... MIROSLAV VOLF God visits us, but most of the time we are not at home FRENCH PROVERB Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its healthy and normal and satisfying for... C.S. LEWIS Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we... R.C. SPROUL God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two place... ORSON PRATT The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times w... ALLYSON FELIX The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piet... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER The world today is fast becoming one.Humanity is one, God is one and mankind are all part of one hum... NAEEM ABDULLAH We should be happy all the time because we know that God is with us PHIL MITCHELL The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conce... WILLIAM HAMILTON God has provided us with an opportunity to experience this wonderful journey called LIFE.... So than... BHAWANA JAIN If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims... DALLAS WILLARD We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enable... JEANNETTE A. BAKKE As we take our places in the General Assembly and at the Council meetings, let us begin all our work... WARREN R. AUSTIN It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine,... HENRY DAVID THOREAU God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent. He is intricately involved in our lives and for that... ROBIN BERTRAM Instead, it is the reality that the God-forsaken one experienced in an eminent way because no one ca... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives u... BRENNAN MANNING I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o... GERONIMO Every day is important for us because it is a day ordained by God. If we are bored with life there i... JERRY BRIDGES Jesus lived His life in complete dependence upon God, as we all ought to live our lives. But such de... DONALD F. BAILLIE We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go ... RICHARD DAWKINS In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is th... WILLIAM AMES Victory comes through self -motivation, perseverance and most of all, a personal relationship with G... SAM COLLINS JR. Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happenin... KRIS LEIGH SCHOTT A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile cu... CRISS JAMI In the world as it is, torn with agonies and dissensions, we need some direction for our souls which... CARYLL HOUSELANDER An omnipotent god can create a being whose acts are known only to itself. An omniscient g... RICHARD R. LA CROIX We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little a... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Love is doing what will enthrall the beloved with the greatest and longest joy. What will enthrall t... JOHN PIPER We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All ... BETHANY JANE ANDREWS HOEY Most of us seek peace of mind, especially in troubled times. Yet we find it hard to turn our problem... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we... SAM HARRIS We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh... OSWALD CHAMBERS God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life. JOSIAH ROYCE WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS BONDING. Bonding is one of the most basic and foundational ideas in lif... HENRY CLOUD To us, food is not an essential issue. There are more important issues, like loving your neighbor as... MARLENE ROSENBERG If we truly believe and understand how omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God is, we should kno... TIFFANY L. JACKSON Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most ... MARCO RUBIO We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fail... NICK VUJICIC Love is as simple as the absence of self given to another. God, when invited, fills the void of any ... CRISS JAMI By holding on to God at all times, we can remain calm and enjoy peace in us even in the middle of ou... LATIKA TEOTIA God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway... ELISABETH ELLIOT We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irra... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence. C.S. LEWIS It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandon... ANN VOSKAMP God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him. JOHN PIPER God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him JOHN PIPER One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of u... JAMES C. DOBSON The power of God is with you at all times; through the activities of mind, senses, breathing, and em... BHAGAVAD GITA Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same ai... ANNE FRANK What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me. CRAIG GROESCHEL If we are to live unto God at any time, or in any place, we are to live unto Him at all times and al... WILLIAM LAW One area that I now consider safe to follow after any past hero of the faith is in their personal de... GREG GORDON God is same yesterday, today, tomorrow and for evermore. People can change what ever they want. Ther... JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM The nature of God is in us, so we are co-creators with God SUNDAY ADELAJA God transforms us one area at a time. JUDAH SMITH And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz sai... NEAL STEPHENSON You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God... BOB DYLAN Flowers magnetize us with their beauty and reflect back to us our own essence. Their qualities magni... KATIE HESS The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us c... RON HALL The best thing of all is God is with us. JOHN WESLEY But we all suffer. For we all prize and love; and in this present existence of ours, prizing and lov... NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current t... TRACY K. SMITH Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’... FRANCIS CHAN What we believe about God is the most important truth we believe, and it's the one truth that does t... MICHAEL SPENCER God’s grace is a gift that is freely given to us. We don’t earn a thing when it comes to God’s... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, i... CHARLES CALEB COLTON The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. THOMAS JEFFERSON The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. THOMAS JEFFERSON From a distance, We all have enough, And no one is in need,And there are no guns, no bombs and no di... JULIE GOLD God is absolutely holy and wise. His nature, attributes, and power are all holy. He is omnipresent, ... DAYANANDA SARASWATI The universe contains many planets which make it what it is – a unified system. In addition, our b... SUZY KASSEM God created every creature, including human, with a definite purpose. In a sense, every life is as s... CHANDRABABU V.S. Divine Love is the key to all of existence. Without it, nothing can survive. Every one of us i... C.MICHELLE GONZALEZ As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signific... JOHN HALES Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in... A. W. TOZER My true religion, my faith in God. He gives me love and compassion. I simply return them by loving a... ANN MARIE AGUILAR A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and ... JAKOB BOHME Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha... JAMES MACDONALD God made us all in his own image, yet not all of us are equal. DUSTIN H. MATHENY There are all the other times when I take a rosary, or misbaha, with thirty-three beads. God has nin... SADIQUA HAMDAN Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, on... JAKOB BOHME Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing... EUDORA WELTY As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current le... BRENE BROWN To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, not a dead one, or a stuffed one, but a liv... VINCENT VAN GOGH The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God i... HENRY B. EYRING Just love slaying dragons, crushing heads of serpents, and beheading giants in our way as we travel ... JOHN M. SHEEHAN God is that which is the same in every single one of us, all the rest is a mindgame through which ex... MAURICE SPEES There is no need for peculiar conditions in order to grow in the spiritual life, for the pressure of... EVELYN UNDERHILL Through faith in the Lord Jesus alone can we obtain forgiveness of our sins, and be at peace with Go... GEORGE MULLER According to his divine nature Christ is “one in essence” (homoousios) with God the Father; acco... KALLISTOS WARE I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always... MADELEINE L'ENGLE
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ALEXANDER HAMILTON Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there,
Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair,
And h... ALEXANDER POPE It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.] ALEXANDER POPE There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec... ALEXANDER HANSON I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom. ALEXANDER LEBEDEV Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho... ALEXANDER PAYNE Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ... ALEXANDER COCKBURN That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat... ALAN ALEXANDER It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin... ALAN ALEXANDER Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ... ALAN ALEXANDER I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo... ALAN ALEXANDER When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done. ALAN ALEXANDER The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. ALEXANDER POPE England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla... ALEXANDER COCKBURN Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di... JASON ALEXANDER War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp... ALEXANDER BERKMAN Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit... ALEXANDER HAMILTON More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion ALEXANDER CHASE A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed ALEXANDER CHASE To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ALEXANDER CHASE To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil... ALEXANDER CHASE The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible ALEXANDER CHASE Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so... ALEXANDER CHASE A man's home is his wife's castle ALEXANDER CHASE Memory is the thing you forget with ALEXANDER CHASE People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction. ALEXANDER CHASE Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ALEXANDER CHASE 'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do. ALEXANDER POPE How index-learning turns no student pale,
Yet holds the eel of science by the tale. ALEXANDER POPE Reason, however able, cool at best,
Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,
Stays til... ALEXANDER POPE Say first, of God above or man below,
What can we reason but from what we know? ALEXANDER POPE We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition. ALEXANDER COMFORT My two favorite movies are 'Coming to America' and 'Boomerang'. SHAUN ALEXANDER A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is... ALEXANDER POPE Lely on animated canvas stole
The sleepy eye, that spoke the melting soul. ALEXANDER POPE He best can paint them who shall feel them most. ALEXANDER POPE Wretches hang that jurymen may dine. ALEXANDER POPE If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a midd... ALEXANDER POPE But if
We have such another victory, we are undone. ALEXANDER POPE The heart resolves this matter in a trice,
"Men only feel the smart, but not the vice." ALEXANDER POPE Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast;
But shall the dignity of vice be lost? ALEXANDER POPE Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. ALEXANDER POPE What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and ... ALEXANDER POPE Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place. ALEXANDER POPE One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit. ALEXANDER POPE When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon
the rights of others. ALEXANDER POPE Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will,
And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. ALEXANDER POPE But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ALEXANDER POPE Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below. ALEXANDER POPE Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. ALEXANDER HERZEN Most women have no characters at all. ALEXANDER POPE Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fil... ALEXANDER POPE All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know t... ALEXANDER TROCCHI Most authors steal their works, or buy. ALEXANDER POPE Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? ALEXANDER POPE True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'T... ALEXANDER POPE Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. ALEXANDER POPE Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. ALEXANDER HAMILTON The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own ... ALEXANDER POPE I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which a... ALEXANDER POPE They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. ALEXANDER POPE Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. ALEXANDER POPE 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own. ALEXANDER POPE Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. ALEXANDER POPE We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philoso... ALEXANDER POPE Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ALEXANDER POPE Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. ALEXANDER POPE The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the... ALEXANDER SCHMEMANN Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. ALEXANDER POPE