Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.

I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented.

You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.

There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Faith in God engenders a love for the Sabbath; faith in the Sabbath engenders a love for God. A sacred Sabbath truly is a delight.

Man has discovered in nature the wonderful notion of that all-mighty being whose law he worships. Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this all-mighty, which we call god (that is to say, the dominion of natural laws throughout the whole universe).

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

In the moment when you make the least petition to God, though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you, or add one moment to your life,--do you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought? In that act, the soul stands alone with God, and Jesus is no more present to your mind than your brother or your child.

You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

I go to church as an expression of my need for God and for God's family.

I've always believed in God. I'm just not so sure he believes in me.

If you don't climb the mountain, you can't see the view

The God we serve will make His presence known, when you praise

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.

For millions of Christians, nevertheless, God is no more real than He is to the non-Christian. They go through life trying to love an ideal and be loyal to a mere principle.