Erma Bombeck Quotes

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.

I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

You can work all your life and make all the waters in all the rivers on Earth drinkable, but if, when you die, you are not ready to meet God, it doesn't matter.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me.

September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.

God didn't make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God... If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity.

I don't believe in a personal god. It's good to give thanks, whether or not there's a god. There's no reason not to live life to the fullest. Morality is all the more important for people who don't expect to get a piece of celestial candy after they die.

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.

The message is that I was reminding myself and informing others of the fact that God has always been good to me. No matter what you're going through, God is always with us. Life is a journey.