Star Jones Quotes

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.

The minister and the priest teach that the organization is greater. No great philosophy has ever come from an organization, but from an individual whose research has been a personal study of God and ITS ways.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

Do not concern yourself with politics and the world; your job is to connect the hearts to God.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”

I don't spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that's how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Young people are not immune to following God's commands concerning discipline.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I have many deep thoughts in God, but I take my own measure, lest I perish by boasting... For I myself, though I am in chains and can comprehend heavenly things, the ranks of the angels and the hierarchy of principalities, things visible and invisible, for all this I am not yet a disciple.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

I want to take my focus off myself and focus on God. It's like setting your spiritual compass so no matter which way you turn during the day, whatever comes up, then my thoughts go back to Him and whatever He said that morning.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.