God Quotes
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Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
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As I said before, evolution doesn’t bother me. If you tell me that God created the earth “by hand” in six days some thousands of years ago, I am impressed. If you tell me instead that God set a whole cosmos in motion some billions of years ago, a cosmos perfectly calibrated within the narrowest of margins to produce at least one planet where life would be developed through cause-effect chains that were designed into it by a purposeful Designer… I am no less impressed; in fact, I may be even more impressed. The “how” and “when” of it all seem almost inconsequential to me compared to the “what” and “why” which lie beyond cause and effect.
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May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.
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Right here, right now, God has placed you to do what you do best. Go all the way.
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I don’t believe in God. She drops by once in a while and we argue about it. Now can you stop yammering on with your questions long enough for us to steal a few horses?
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Pride is competition-competition between God and Man.
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Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
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God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.
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Don't worry about locating your purpose. If you are seeking after God, your purpose will locate you.
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If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.
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Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.
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Problems are spiritual lessons from God-spiritual lessons to be learned.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.
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Grace is never cheap. It is absolutely free to us, but infinitely expensive to God... Anyone who is prone to use grace as a license for irresponsible, sinful behavior, surely does not appreciate the infinite price God paid to give us His grace.
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What is the most significant conversation you have every day?” People would respond piously, “Your conversation with God, of course.” “No,” Lewis would reply. “It’s the conversation you have with yourself before you speak to God, because in that conversation with yourself, you decide whether you are going to be honest and authentic with God, or whether you are going to meet God with a false face, a mask, an act, a pretense.
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
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As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
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Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.
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God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.
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If we speak of an angry God at all, we will speak of a God angry at indifference, angry at apathy, angry at racism and violence, angry at inhumanity, angry at waste, angry at destruction, angry at injustice, angry at hostile religious clannishness. That anger is never against us (or them); it is against what is against us (and them).
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For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.
