Brian Houston Quotes
When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we’re often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.
Quotes to Explore
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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It is not the soul alone that should be healthy; if the mind is healthy in a healthy body, all will be healthy and much better prepared to give God greater service.
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If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'
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I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
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God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
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The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is anything to do with God. Anything to do with God is quite frightening because fear is something that's very much expressed in a church environment, and I grew up in one. And the fear of God was very much instilled me at a very young age.
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Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.
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The prophets... interpreted past history, shaped present history, and foretold future history on the basis of the conviction that God rules with righteousness in the affairs of nations, and that only what is just, and not what is expedient and profitable, shall endure.
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You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.
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The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity.
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I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.
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I got three letters today telling me that I'm god. Why can't I pay the rent?
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Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.
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Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
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The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
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When we allow our fears and insecurities to blind us momentarily, we’re often tempted to make the gate narrower than God does.
