I think that it’s the love of God that brings man into repentance. Once you embrace that love and have that fellowship with God, all those things that you shouldn’t be doing will go away. – Tasha Smith
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire. – Vincent McNabb
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. – William Ames
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail. – Sheri L. Dew
Fame is a curse… it was the worst phase of my life, which I thank God I’ll never have to go through again. – Sinead O’Connor
We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they’ll have to redefine who he is. – Vincent Bugliosi
Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love. – Sun Myung Moon
How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ. – Stephen Covey
Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is. – Sri Chinmoy
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes. – Thomas Paine
As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God’s design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings. – Stockwell Day
Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race. – Sojourner Truth
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done. – Sushant Singh Rajput
We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God. – Victoria Osteen
I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods. – Stephen Fry
God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls. – Yehuda Berg
In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him. – Zach Wamp
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system. – William A. Dembski
To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
We have the promise of God’s being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham’s seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. – Thomas Goodwin
My father hates organized religion, probably because he hates the God who killed his little girl back in 1968. I find religions variously bemusing. – William T. Vollmann
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments. – Zig Ziglar
God our Father and His Son Jesus Christ, with Their perfect foreknowledge, already recommended every one of you to fill your mortal probation during the most decisive period in the history of the world. – Sheri L. Dew