Plato Quotes
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
Quotes to Explore
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.
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God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.
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Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
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Regardless of what you're searching, you ain't gonna find it until you include God. Because, if you have a problem with women, drugs, or whatever the case may be, the only person that can fix that problem is God.
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.
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When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won.
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There will have to be some way to ensure accountability for what has already been found here.
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The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
