God Quotes
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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Though it is perhaps expected for the bishop of Rome to warn against the idolatry of money, what is striking is how Francis suggests that not only God but also secular politics must outrank economic imperatives.
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The promises of God are His guarantees amid life's uncertainties. They're the basis of all our life of faith.
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I wouldn't try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.
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I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me.
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When once you realize all that it cost God to forgive you, you will be held as in a vice, constrained by the love of God.
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One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
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I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.
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My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
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The Bible contains all the extant revelations of God, which He designed to be the rule of faith and practice for his Church; so that nothing can rightfully be imposed on the consciences of men as truth or duty which is not taught directly or by necessary implication in the Holy Scriptures.
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Only God singing this song of you... makes true light... somehow possible.
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Our strongest gifts are usually those we are barely aware of possessing. They are a part of our God-given nature, with us from the moment we drew first breath, and we are no more conscious of having them than we are of breathing.
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But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it.
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In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.
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There is no justice, no law, and no God in heaven, only a single law which decides and supersedes all-[Jewish] settlement [of the land].
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Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?
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I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
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God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?
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In my case, I learned that although God loves us, he doesn't grant us immunity from the consequences of our choices.
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Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.
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No matter who or what we are, God restores us to right standing with Himself only by means of the death of Jesus Christ.
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A heathen philosopher once asked a Christian, 'Where is God'? The Christian answered, 'Let me first ask you, Where is He not?'
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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
