Ezola B. Foster Quotes
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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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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
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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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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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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.
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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.'
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I’ve always been highly energized and have written poems in spurts. From the god-given first line right through the poem. And I don’t write two or three lines and then come back the next day and write two or three more; I write the whole poem at one sitting and then come back to it from time to time over the months or years and rework it.
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The revelation in Jesus, just because it is the revelation of the righteousness of God is at the same time the strongest conceivable veiling and unknowableness of God. In Jesus, God really becomes a mystery, makes himself known as the unknown, speaks as the eternally Silent One.
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Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
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There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.
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God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
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God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.
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I give God all the glory. And try to move on. Come home and hug my wife and my children. And thank God for every day that I have with my family.
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Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.
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I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.
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All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
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That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.
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There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.
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''Waterloo was won,'' quoted Rackham, ''on the playing fields of Eton.'' 'What the hell does that mean?' asked Carn Carby. 'You never even went to Eton.' 'It was an analogy,' said Rackham. 'If you hadn't spent your entire childhood playing war games, you'd actually know something. You're all so uneducated.'
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The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.
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If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write.
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You have a challenge; never quit!
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God brought African slaves to America so that their descendants would know freedom.
