Eric Ludy Quotes

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?

If God is God, we can't be afraid of what we can learn.

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

The Truth, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

I am not scared of anyone except the Almighty.

People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.

For God, nothing is impossible. And, if he wanted, in the future women would give birth from their ears.

If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics? But if science is feared, it is above all because it can give no happiness? Man, then, can not be happy through science but today he can much less be happy without it.

I hope that the truth shall eventually give me back my freedom.

All I want is the truth, just give me some truth

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.