Dan Ellis Quotes

God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

Dan Ellis

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• One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • God
  • Speak
  • Year

• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• 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

• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Property
  • Mine

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • God
  • Long
  • Experience

• What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.

  

  Sai Baba
  • God
  • Nature
  • Night

• To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • God
  • Nature
  • Relationship

• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • God
  • Country
  • She

• Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Freedom

• Every drop of rain that falls in Sahara Desert says it all It's a miracle. All God's creations great and small, the Golden Gate and the Taj Mahal That's a miracle. Test tube babies being born, mothers, fathers dead and gone It's a miracle.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Great
  • God
  • Small

• We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God

• If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • God
  • Long

• Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • God
  • Political
  • Religious

• In the Bible, ordination - I don't see that in the Scripture. In the Bible, it's whether you're filled with the Holy Spirit, whether you're anointed by God, whether you're called by God, whether you're obedient to Him. I want to be those things, but I don't see any purpose for me in being ordained.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • God
  • Purpose
  • Bible

• Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Time
  • God
  • History

• I don't really miss God but I sure miss Santa Claus!

  

  Courtney Love
  • God
  • Santa Claus

• The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • God
  • Learning
  • End

• I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

  

  Ayad Allawi
  • Freedom
  • Duty
  • Reconciliation

• God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.

  

  Dan Ellis
  • God
  • Already
  • Equipped