God Quotes
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Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.
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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.
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...we see God working in terms of Jewish culture to reach Jews, yet, refusing to impose Jewish customs on Gentiles. Instead non-Jews are to come to God and relate to Him in terms of their own cultural vehicles. We see the Bible endorsing, then, a doctrine we call biblical sociocultural adequacy in which each culture is taken seriously but none advocated exclusively as the only one acceptable to God.
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He was like one of those messenger boys for God ... doing what he could, where he could and hoping that he got it right.
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Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.
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I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.
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When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.
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Your attitude toward the word of God is your attitude toward Jesus (Ps 37:4).
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I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
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Sin hurts other people and grieves God, but it also corrodes us. Sin is a form of self-abuse.
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When everyone turned away, the only person I could turn to was God within myself, and that is what I continue to rely on.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.
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Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.
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It's better to obey God rather than men.
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In most conventional novels, God is not allowed to be nuts. Nor are nuts allowed to be God.
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People who have the courage to be individuals can usually think things through on their own and make sound decisions. They don't say, "What will people think?" They say, "What's the best way to handle this?" The amazing fact is that God created each one of us as a separate, unique person amid billions of other separate, unique individuals. So the best way to achieve real fulfillment is to be yourself.
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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
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You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.
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Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He said, We need a girl that we can trust.
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But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.
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God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.
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Religion is often just tribalism: pride in a group one was born into, a group that is often believed to have 'God' on its side.
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The point is to raise your voice and be heard to God. You really are just celebrating being in the presence of other people that believe the same things you believe.
