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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
Sep 10, 2025
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.
As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.
There is no truth which the prophets press more steadily upon Israel than that all their national life lies in the sight and on the care of God.
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.
My god, life is beautiful! Look at the colors! if you are blind, look at the colors of your mind.
And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in the conscious realisation of the fact that God lives in us, is indeed the life of our life, and that in ourselves we have no independent life, and hence no power, is the one great fact of all true religion, even as it is the one great fact of human life. Religion, therefore, at its purest, and life at its truest, are essentially and necessarily one and the same.
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
It is so important to see that we are all converted, that we have in our hearts a conviction concerning this great work. It is not a matter of the head only. It is a matter of the heart. It is being touched by the Holy Spirit until we know that this work is true, that Joseph Smith was verily a prophet of God, that God lives and that Jesus Christ lives and that they appeared to the boy Joseph Smith, that the Book of Mormon is true, that the priesthood is here with all of its gifts and blessings.
God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.
I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
All men have need of the gods.
Without God, life is everything.
So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.
Faith in God - life can never take you by surprise again.
Every man's life is a plan of God.
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of the divine life.
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.
Never pray to God for release of your problems. Never pray to God to change your life, and to give you something better. This is wrong prayer. If you have to pray to God, pray to God to give you the strength and the wisdom and the courage that you need to be able to handle the situation that you're in. This is correct prayer.
. . . More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheeps or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Not only for themselves but for those who call them friend? For so this whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
With all the strength of my soul, I testify that God lives, that His Beloved Son is the firstfruits of the Resurrection, that the gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light that makes of every hopeless dawn a joyful morning.
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
You may be living under the illusion that when God ignites great things in your life, He'll announce it with a big bang. He might. It's more likely that He won't. So stop waiting around for the big bang. Pay attention to the subtle clues and the still, small voice. God lives in that place too.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Angels live no place, as God lives no place. They live in the space of eternity, in the center of our hearts, and sometimes I think we each serve as the channels and angels of God, touched by wings of silence, pushed to angelic acts.
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.
God is within you. You yourself are your creator. If you find that place in yourself from which you brought this thing about, you will be able to live with it and affirm it, perhaps even enjoy it, as your life.
We need silence to be able to touch souls.
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.