God Quotes
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.
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The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .
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The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.
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It is incomprehensible grace to be a prodigal who is held by God again.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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I am a God, so hurry up with my damn massage; in a French-ass restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants.
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I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.
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Peter's faith had many a shaking, but it was established upon the truth of his God, upon the person and work and righteousness of Jesus Christ.
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If you don't feel as close to God today as you did yesterday, who moved?
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We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
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It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
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Through the infinite Atonement, God has provided a means whereby we can both overcome our sins and become completely clean again. This is made possible by the eternal law of mercy. Mercy satisfies the claims of justice through our repentance and the power of the Atonement. Without the power of the Atonement and our complete repentance, we are subject to the law of justice.
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We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
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I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
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Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.
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The Jews did not go into darkness all at once. It was a gradual work, until they could not discern the gift of God in sending his Son.
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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
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God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him...
