God Quotes
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Craving clarity, we attempt to eliminate the risk of trusting God.
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Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive whatever God assigns, and a determination to practice the sacrificial principle of Isaiah 58:10-11. Life becomes not only far simpler, but surprisingly joyful and free.
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If you are doing nothing, God doesn't need to give you any help in doing nothing. Go out and do something impossible for Jesus, and then God will help you.
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Help yourself, then God will also help you!
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It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.
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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
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You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
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When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.
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Within three hundred years Jesus went from being a Jewish apocalyptic prophet to being God himself, a member of the Trinity. Early Christianity is nothing if not remarkable.
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Bloody Machiavellian English Intelligence Officer playing God.
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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.
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Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.
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But there is no use in trying to engraft an opposite nature on one’s own. What I am, that I must be, except as God changes me into His own image. And everything brings me back to that, as my supreme desire. I see more and more that I must be myself what I want my children to be and that I cannot make myself over even for their sakes. This must be His work, and I wonder that it goes on so slowly, that all the disappointments, sorrows, sicknesses I have passed through have left me still selfish, still full of imperfections!
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That's what God does. He moves the wind across the water or leaves it still. He can do all that. That's God doing that and He can do it on any lake that He wants to.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
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God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.
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The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will.
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...if God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.
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God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
