religion

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

People can change their external lives with religion, but a lasting internal change only happens through a daily relationship with Jesus.

Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

The worship of power is an old religion.

The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they__ have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive.

Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!

God alone knows exactly what you and I must endure in order to form His character in us. It is in our trials that God refines us and removes our impurities. Like refined gold, when we pass through our trials, people will see His perfect reflection in us.

Faith looks to God, hopes in God, and believes in His promises, regardless of our actual circumstances.

God sometimes moves mountains one pebble at a time.

Mohammad never assigned himself a status more than a common man and a messenger of God. People had faith in him when he was surrounded by poverty and adversity and trusted him while he was the ruler of a great Empire. He was a man of spotless character who always had confidence in himself and in God's help. No aspect of his life remained hidden nor was his death a mysterious event.

I had to take a step of faith and look beyond my circumstances. I had to make a conscious choice to trust Him.

I learned that within the confines of God__ story, nothing had been stolen from me, but rather everything was given to me. My life, which felt so out of control, was in reality in complete control _ God__ control.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He__l do more than we expect.

A broken person understands she needs rescue, and she depends on God to resurrect and deliver. And she also understands that even if God chooses not to deliver, His ways are higher and more amazing then what we can fathom.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn__ sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You__e flatly not safe_

There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.