God Quotes
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Excuse me while I light my spliff, good God I gotta take a lift.
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality is the Incarnation, and nobody believes in the Incarnation; that is, nobody in your audience. My audience are the people who think God is dead. At least these are the people I am conscious of writing for.
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The great thing about faith in God is that it keeps a man undisturbed in the midst of disturbance.
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It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
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If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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Poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.
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At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.
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God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.
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Our Lord's conception of discipleship is not that we work for God, but that God works through us.
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What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.
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My parents are private investigators for God's sake.
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It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
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I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.
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I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.
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At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.
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What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
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True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love.
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God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
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Why does God endow us with compassion?
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The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
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When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.
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The New Testament tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves. We are to deal with them in terms of God's law. We owe them such fair dealing.
