God Quotes
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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Now God be praised, I will die in peace.
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The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.
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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
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I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.
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Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.
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And how am I to face the oddsOf man’s bedevilment and God’s?I, a stranger and afraidIn a world I never made.
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It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a ' Christ within us, the hope of glory.'
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God has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And he's given us the indwelling strength and guidance of the Holy Spirit. The rest is up to us.
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God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.
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God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
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Many people feel unaware of any guidance, unable to discern or understand the signals of God; not because the signals are not given, but because the mind is too troubled, clouded, and hurried to receive them.
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...You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up – a line which I often thought was a very plausible one – that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it.
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The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.
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I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.
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God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
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Oh my God, you look at all the uniforms in Star Wars, and it's all Nazi iconography.
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I thought it was really odd at how much people freaked out at Katrina. You'd think they'd be worried about something important. 'Oh my God, look! George Bush is just appointing all his friends into office and we're in an unfounded war...' But no- 'Fuck that! That nigger's stealing some potato chips!'
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'I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God.' And I say no, it's not, Dad. 'Well, I believe that it is.' Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
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The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.
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You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
