James Dwight Dana Quotes

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

I try to be sensitive to the power of language, to the power of language that God uses to reveal something about what Christ is doing in our time. That is why I'm always excited about preaching, because there is always something new.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those who have lost God will find Him... there is a God, there has to be, and now I will pray, I will pray that He will forgive that I have neglected Him all of these years, forgive that I have betrayed, lied, and sinned with impunity only to turn to Him now in my hour of need. I pray that He is as merciful, benevolent, and gracious as His book says He is.

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

As a Christian, I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

The truth I know for sure is that god is the creator of all things. And to not take ourselves too seriously.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel.

Science brings men nearer to God.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

God is the absolute truth...

The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human knowledge.

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.