God And Man Quotes

“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I believe that the heartbeat of God can be felt in everything. The concept of God is not aloof to me, nor is it difficult for me to grasp! When I see the tender embrace of a father, I see God; when I breathe, I breathe God, He moves inside my lungs! I am not without God, because God is in everything!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Our relationship with God is not about doing right and not doing wrong, but it's simply about walking on this earth with the same One whom we walked with before we came to this earth! It's a continuum. It is, in itself, a part of aeternum!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“God will not punish you when you speak your mind, because he speaks through you if he truly lives in you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“Humans naturally reflect their nature upon the nature of their God. So to know a person, just ask what the person thinks about their God. It’s either that, or an individual aims to reflect the nature of their God onto themselves; in either case, just ask about the God and you will know the person, or at least, what the person thinks of himself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“A god that created me free and autonomous, yet, tells me how and what I should think. - On Religion and Free Will”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“The God of the philosophers disappeared behind the world, because he was described in the third person, and not addressed in the second.”
― Roger Scruton, The Soul of the World

“Adam is one. But the God he represents is trinitarian--three in one. A solitary image bearer is missing a key component of God's image and is therefore incapable of revealing God in the world, much less fulfilling his destiny as a human being. Little wonder God says, 'It is not good for the man to be alone.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“...though the Elders are connected to the Great Spirit, they are still only elves.”
― Craig R. Key, A Sight Unseen

“The relationship between God and man are built only within a time frame.”
― Sunday Adelaja

“God helps those who help themselves' is common sense, 'God helps those who cannot help themselves' is sound theology, and 'God helps all the living', a simple ideation.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“God does not need endorsement, yet isn’t that what all religions are about?" - On Religions”
― Lamine Pearlheart, To Life from the Shadows

“The first trick the Devil performed on humanity was to create religion. The second one was to coerce/convince decent people to surrender to it, but his ultimate and masterful act was to convince them that he actually exists. - On the Devil.”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“The challenge is not with the king for the kingdom, the challenge is with the wise for the wisdom”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Humans have fashioned the relationship with God into a vertical pattern, in adherance to their desire for hierarchy. The higher on this vertical pattern they perceive themselves to be, the better they feel they are in comparison to others. But they have lost before they have even begun! For the relationship with God is a horizontal pattern, not a vertical one. The only true religion is what manifests in how we treat our fellow people, animals, and the world we have been gifted with. The only relationship with God is born in our relationship with what is horizontal, what is parallel, to us.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The problem with the concept of God is that He is simultaneously the most perfect, sinless Being but also the one we are supposed to be running to with all of our missteps and issues. Think about the types of friends you want to discuss your missteps and issues with: they're definitely not the perfect, sinless, judgy ones. So how is anybody supposed to feel comfortable talking to a God who's not a friend; but is merely an archetype of a blameless ideal, something unreal and distant?”
― C. JoyBell C.

“God is entrusting his reputation to our male/female relationships. We are telling the world what God is like by how we interact, value one another, build his kingdom together, and move towards trinitarian oneness.

This exposes the appalling state of affairs. It is not merely that God's image is desecrated where violence and atrocities are rampant as we saw in the previous chapters, but also in the more polite and religiously approved forms of division, dysfunction, and the tense negotiations over roles and rank that are widespread among believers in marriage, the church, and every other place our paths cross.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“God gave us minds and he means for us to use them. We need to know God better, so we won't be trying to trust a stranger when the lights go out and we're in a spiritual free-fall.”
― Carolyn Custis James, Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women

“One must, however, take care not to understand this conversation with God--the conversation of which I have to speak in this book and in almost all the works which followed--as something happening solely alongside or above the everyday. God's speech to men penetrates what happens in the life of each one of us, and all that happens in the world around us, biographical and historical, and makes it for you and me into instruction, message, demand. Happening upon happening, situation upon situation, are enabled and empowered by the personal speech of God to demand of the human person that he take his stand and make his decision. Often enough we think there is nothing to hear, but long before we have ourselves put wax in our ears.
(Postscript, October 1957)”
― Martin Buber, I and Thou