#god

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#been #body #centre #god #join

Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by putting my faith in God. No matter how good my lawyers were, no matter how much celebrity I had, everything was just stacked up against me. ↗

— Puff Daddy

#against #blessed #celebrity #come #could

Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God? ↗

— Roald Dahl

#did #god #men #one thing #practice

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all. ↗

— Mary Daly

#dynamic #god #indeed #most #must

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #desire #did #duty #farther

I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #churches #esteem #every #gathering

God is sufficient in all ages for His church. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #god #his #his church #sufficient

If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. Certainly that is why there is nothing in the new testament about beautiful sunsets.- Mike Mason -Author of "The Mystery of Marriage ↗

— Mike Mason

#human #inspirational #life #love #religion

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#among #children #divide #god #most

Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#although #bodies #centuries #children #church