Octavia E. Butler Quotes
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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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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For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
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When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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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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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
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And now may the blessing of God rest upon all men. I have told unto them the Epic of Kings, and the Epic of Kings is come to a close, and the tale of their deeds is ended.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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When you receive God's love and encouragement, it will empower you to do more than you ever thought possible.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call.
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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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Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.
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George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.
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The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.
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I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards - When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness.
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'Why do they call them vaulters?' 'Vaulters?' 'Voltigeur, Sharpe. French for vaulter.' 'God knows, sir.' 'Because the jump like fleas, sir, when you shoot at them. But don't worry yourself about that one, sir. He's a good voltigeur, that one. He's dead.'
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I dreamed there would be a time to come together to "build out the Hope Reformation that would bring certain shifts to the leaders in the Body of Christ." In this dream, I saw the buildings of revival and prayer and there was some divine activity that was good and needed and foundational for what God was doing on the earth.
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If Rupert Murdoch wants to charge for content online, he will succeed in so far, but no further than what he provides that is unique and can't be found anywhere. It doesn't seem to me that if he wants to charge it will be a blow to universal freedom and liberty of mankind.
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Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever's point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.
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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
