God Quotes
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The Barbarian Way was, in some sense, trying to create a volatile fuel to get people to step out and act. It's pretty hard to get a whole group of people moving together as individuals who are stepping into a more mystical, faith-oriented, dynamic kind of experience with Christ. So, I think Barbarian Way was my attempt to say, "Look, underneath what looks like invention, innovation and creativity is really a core mysticism that hears from God, and what is fueling this is something really ancient." That's what was really the core of The Barbarian Way.
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Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.
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The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.
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Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.
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God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.
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Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
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Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.
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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
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I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!
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The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.
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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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If God used evolution, God came from an ape.
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If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God’s brother, not God’s Son.
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God willing and the creek don't rise
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What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
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To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
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In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
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Glory be to God for dappled things.
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But the second half of the message has been sorely neglected: the part about God’s dream that you become a precious and cherished son or daughter living in deep union with Him.
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For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.
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The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.
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The goal is the developed Kingdom of god, the New Jerusalem, a world order under god's law.
