Thomas Howard Quotes

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

I find that doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.'

I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say.

I believe that the whole human race is the family of God.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Christianity has basically communicated to men that the reason God put you on this Earth is to be a good boy. Mind your manners, be a nice guy. That's soul killing!

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

Make this simple rule the guide of your life: to have no will but God's.

Jesus went to the cross for sins He didn't commit. Hello! You can carry a grudge just thinking about that, but don't do it. He knew what He was doing. It was His choice, and He did it willingly. It was the will of the Father, and He always did the will of God without complaint. So what is it that we have to complain about?

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

While I am the one who made the choice to enter the ministry, there was a choice before that one, the choice God made in calling me to be his in the first place.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.