T. B. Joshua Quotes
'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
Quotes to Explore
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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.'
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I came to realize I did believe in God. I couldn't conceive of a universe without someone overseeing it in a compassionate way.
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Attraction is what happens between you. It's not universal. And it's not conventional. And thank God for that.
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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.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I'm fascinated by simple joy.
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
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Sleep now, Alone in the sleeves of grief, Listening to clothes falling And your flesh touching God...
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I bleed feminism. I get equal pay to my male costars on a big show; I have my own home. I'm as independent as you could possibly be.
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If your people don't really believe or respect you, if you don't have the moral authority to rule, then your goose is cooked.
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Love wins when everything else will fail.
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I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
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'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
