Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.
To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.
In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness for its place in the working out of His purpose; and the end of all shall be the manifestation of His glory, and the accumulation of His praise.
A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
What are the things you are grateful for?? Feel the gratitude. . focus on what you have right now that you are grateful for.
And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.
What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.
India's a very interesting place. . . there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.