Dan Ellis Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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The Qur'an is God's property, not mine.
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If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.
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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.
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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.
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Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
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If one has lived long enough, there is danger of succumbing to the word 'God' merely because it was always there.
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
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I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.
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Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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Then Elizabeth moaned and said, “Mountain of God, receive a mother with her child.” For Elizabeth was not able to climb the mountain. And straight away the mountain split open and received her. And the mountain was shining a light on her, for an angel of the Lord was with them, protecting them.
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God never puts something in our path where He has not already equipped us to handle.
