The question then will be, whether a consolidated government can preserve the freedom and secure the rights of the people.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.
Sometimes I've looked at a plate of food and wondered if it wouldn't look better as a hat.
I would argue that in times of war, sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information, we lose everything.
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
Success is not in what you have, but who you are.