God Quotes
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When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.
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I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.
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All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
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When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
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“The Gospel, then, is simply the creative power of God applied to men. Any gospel that leaves creation out, or which does not preach the creative power of God, as seen in the things that He has made, and which does not comfort men by that power, calling upon them ever to keep it in mind as their only source of strength, is “another gospel,” which is simply no gospel at all, since there can be no other.”
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How often we say about our earthly friends, I really would like to have a good quiet settled talk with them so that I can really get to know them. And shouldn't we feel the same about our Heavenly Friend, that we may really get to know Him? These thoughts have taught me the importance of the children of God taking time to commune daily with their Father, so that they may get to know His mind and to understand better what His will is.
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All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
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What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is ours and it obeys us; we may launch it forth into space, but, once outside of our feeble brains, it is gone; we can no longer control it.
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“How does a person become bad?─from forgetting that God is over him.”
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Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
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It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.
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And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself "He's in control.”
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In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.
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People always say The God Father is the #1 movie of all time. But ask yourself, did you see Zach Braff in it....No you didn't. So then by default it goes to Garden State..and if youwatch two episodes of scrubs back to back that counts as the #2.
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That's a gift from God. I'm there to pitch.
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I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."
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My real name's Rakim - my parents named me after the god MC himself.
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Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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Making films has been kind of my way of getting closer to God.
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Do you think God would heal an adulterer? Well I believe if God would save an adulterer, then He would heal one.
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I wanted to be a lawyer. I realized I don't really want to be a lawyer. I want to play a lawyer. Thank God I figured that out.
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I felt unworthy, and it's amazing how God kind of showed me that that's how we act as humans, and that's sometimes how we act in our Christian life.
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Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
