Malcolm de Chazal Quotes

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Allah does not hear the prayer of disbelievers.

The message I always received was God is good. You're bad. Try harder. I pretty much kept my hand up at anything that represented God.

Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

A rabbi should not despair if people do not do as much as they should. Every parent has that with children. God is merciful.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.