God Quotes
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God seems to have a delightful way of upsetting the things we have calculated on without taking Him into account. We get into circumstances which were not chosen by God, and suddenly we find we have been calculating without God; He has not entered in as a living factor. The one thing that keeps us from the possibility of worrying is bringing God in as the greatest factor in all our calculations.
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I know for a fact that we're not pushed or promoted to speak about God with fervor.
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God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
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The people of the world can live together in peace. We know that is God's vision. Now, that must be our work here on Earth.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.
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I am alone. There is no God where I am.
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God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
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Without God man has no reference point to define himself. 20th century philosophy manifests the chaos of man seeking to understand himself as a creature with dignity while having no reference point for that dignity.
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I live for now, not for what happens after I die. I'm going to hell, not heaven. The devil has all the good gear. What's God got? The Inspiral Carpets and nuns.
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Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
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About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.
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The Heavenly Father does not ask for golden vessels. He does not ask for silver vessels. God asks for yielded vessels.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.
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My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly, we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job, and it will never be done unless we do it.
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Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
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I am a servant, taking orders and receiving orders. What God tells me, I say, and what He shows me, I see. His will must always supersede.
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
