Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
Everyone is a son or daughter of god.
If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.
God is the creator of all things.
One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
God himself took this human flesh upon him.
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word.
How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.
We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.
God has many names, though He is only one Being.
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
What comes to mind when you think of heaven? Heaven is referred to in fifty-four of the Bible's sixty-six books, and the final two chapters of the Bible are a virtual travelogue of our heavenly home. To visualize heaven accurately, study the Bible continually.
In its broadest term, religion says that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in rightful relations to it.
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world
Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.
God. Twice I speak it. I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. You think you're the only one he never answers? "Your job is to..." And I stop listening to me, because to put it bluntly, I tire me.
I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.
Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?
I thought you were all-seeing.” All-knowing, not all-seeing!” he snapped. “I’m a God, not Santa Claus!
The second coming was an event in the spiritual, and not in the natural world.
Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive
