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		If God miraculously created all that is, including you and me, then to say that we need miracles is an understatement. Our only response to that idea should be undying gratitude.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eric Metaxas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Armstrong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		God's not thinking about your mistakes, failures or shortcomings. No, His thoughts toward you are good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Osteen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Bloom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Even if we don't believe in church or God, we still believe in things that are bigger than ourselves. We need to believe in those things because if we can't be open to what we don't know, there's no hope for any of us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Joyce 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nancy Friday 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Hamilton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kanye West 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. S. Byatt 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Foxy Brown 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Victoria Osteen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abraham Clark 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ignatius of Antioch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				John Ortberg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you feel besieged by life today, lean on the God of peace - the God of hope and the future. The same God who has a plan for Israel has a plan for you. Trust that He will direct your path. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				David Jeremiah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Armstrong 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Oswald Chambers 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If God miraculously created all that is, including you and me, then to say that we need miracles is an understatement. Our only response to that idea should be undying gratitude. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eric Metaxas