Carolyn Custis James Quotes

The widow becomes God’s Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.

Carolyn Custis James

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• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?

  

  Tasha Smith
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Heart

• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • God
  • Women

• I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Write
  • Speeches

• 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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Desire
  • Accept

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Life
  • Teach
  • Detail

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Fight
  • Name

• What God hath wrought?

  

  Samuel Morse
  • God
  • Wrought
  • God Hath

• The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Music
  • God
  • Church

• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Sky
  • Connection

• If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me!

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Spiritual

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God

• I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • Beautiful
  • Free
  • Style

• I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Time
  • Gifted

• The widow becomes God’s Exhibit A to teach the world (and his people in particular) how far we have to go before our thoughts and actions line up with his.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Teach
  • To Go