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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a sunhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the son shines on it.
- C.S. Lewis
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Consider what you owe to His immutability. Though you have changed a thousand times, He has not changed once.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
- Sam Storms
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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
- Ronald Reagan
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God is in control and therefore in everything I can give thanks.
- Kay Arthur
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The only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.
- Phillips Brooks
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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
- A. W. Tozer
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Life’s trials are not easy. But in God’s will, each has a purpose.
- Warren Wiersbe
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
- Tim Keller
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The Cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuited God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.
- A. W. Tozer
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Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
- John Wesley
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God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.
- Henry Blackaby
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When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.
- Chuck Swindoll
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There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny.
- Ravi Zacharias
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God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
- Max Lucado
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For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
- Hebrews 4:12
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Of all created comforts, God is the leader; you are the borrower, not the owner.
- Samuel Rutherford
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I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.
- Billy Sunday
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I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.
- Thomas Merton
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To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
- Henry Blackaby
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It comes to my having the mind of God, do I want to be like Christ in everything? If born of God, I have power to overcome all that is not of God, and to walk according to God.
- G.V. Wigram
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Because God is faithful, He can be trusted fully to completely carry out His commitments to us.
- Jimmy Swaggart
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He calls us to trust him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
- Francis Chan
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No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father’s attention.
- Jerry Bridges
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God is not silent. It is the nature of God to speak. The second person of the Holy Trinity is called the Word.
- A. W. Tozer
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Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.
- Judge Roy Moore
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God works things out on his timetable to bring the best results for us.
- Alan Robertson
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God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You’re doing.
- Francis Chan
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Your Lord is Love: love Him and in Him all men, as His children in Christ. Your Lord is a fire: do not let your heart be cold, but burn with faith and love. Your Lord is light: do not walk in darkness of mind, without reasoning or understanding, or without faith.
- John of Kronstadt
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You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will.
- C.S. Lewis
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There's nothing more calming in difficult moments than knowing there's someone fighting with you.
- Mother Teresa
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If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.
- John Newton
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We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming a man, to help man. Whoever heard of Jupiter or Mars or Minerva coming down and attempting to bear the burdens of men? The gods were willing enough to receive the gifts of men, but Christianity is unique in the fact that our God became a man with human infirmity and emptied Himself of the glory of heaven, in order that He might take upon Himself the sins, diseases and weakness of our humanity.
- A. C. Dixon
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When you have nothing left but God, you have more than enough to start over again.
- Mother Teresa
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Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks
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Nothing can separate you from God's love, absolutely nothing. God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!
- Hannah Whitall Smith
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Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot head the voice of God.
- Mother Teresa
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It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
- George Washington
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It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.
- George Washington
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Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
- Ronald Reagan
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
- A. W. Tozer
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
- Blaise Pascal
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You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
- A. W. Tozer
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
- Augustine
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
- George Washington Carver
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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.
- A. W. Pink
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America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side.
- Ronald Reagan
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God is the archetypal Father; all other fatherhood is a more or less imperfect copy of his perfect fatherhood. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
- F.F. Bruce
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Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us.
- George Washington
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It is one thing to be accepted by God; it is quite another thing to be APPROVED by God.
- Zac Poonen
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Without doubt the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God.
- A. W. Tozer
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There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan.
- C.S. Lewis
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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Human fellowship can go to great lengths, but not all the way. Fellowship with God can go to all lengths.
- Oswald Chambers
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Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
- Blaise Pascal
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Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.
- A. W. Pink
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One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.
- Tim Keller
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God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him.
- C.S. Lewis
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Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
- E.M. Bounds
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God will mend a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.
- Assorted Authors
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There is a kind of gospel being proclaimed today which conveniently accommodates itself to the spirit of the age, and makes no demand for godliness.
- Duncan Campbell
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Let us follow in Jesus' footsteps. Let people say whatever evil they want to, about us. If we honor God, He will one day honor us.
- Zac Poonen
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I wish, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate "the pearl oyster"--A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot reject the evil, but what does it do but "cover" it with a precious substance extracted out of its own life, by which it turns the intruder into a pearl! Oh, that we could do so with the provocations we receive from our fellow Christians, so that pearls of patience, gentleness, and forgiveness might be bred within us by that which otherwise would have harmed us.
- Charles Spurgeon
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By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
- Matthew Henry
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You were put on this earth to have fellowship with the living God.
- Judy Harrell
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There once was in man a true happiness of which now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present. But these are all inadequate, because the infinite abyss can only be filled by an infinite and immutable object, that is to say, only by God Himself.
- Blaise Pascal
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If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
- Adoniram Judson
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Our wickedness shall not overpower the unspeakable goodness and mercy of God; our dullness shall not overpower God's wisdom, nor our infirmity God's omnipotence.
- John of Kronstadt
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The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
- Andrew Murray
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Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!
- Charles Spurgeon
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To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!
- A. W. Pink
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Assorted Authors
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A "god" whose will is resisted, whose designs are frustrated, whose purpose is checkmated, possesses no title to Deity, and so far from being a fit object of worship, merits naught but contempt.
- A. W. Pink
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Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
- John Wesley
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God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Divine sovereignty is not the sovereignty of a tyrannical Despot, but the exercised pleasure of One who is infinitely wise and good! Because God is infinitely wise He cannot err, and because He is infinitely righteous He will not do wrong.
- A. W. Pink
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Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices.
- C.S. Lewis
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How comfortable it is to have One, day and night, before the throne to control the charge of our enemy, and the despondencies of our souls.
- Stephen Charnock
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God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.
- Ravi Zacharias
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It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
- Blaise Pascal
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The sea is an excellent figure of the fullness of God, and that of the blessed Spirit. For as the rivers all return into the sea; so the bodies, the souls, and the good works of the righteous, return into God, to live there in his eternal repose.
- John Wesley
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The Gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness - the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that - a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don't believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the Gospel teach you - that is to train, discipline, coach you - over a period of time. You must let the Gospel argue with you. You must let the Gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.
- Tim Keller
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He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other.
- C.S. Lewis
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
- Hannah More
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There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God.
- Frederick W. Faber
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We are called to live Coram Deo, defined as: before the presence of God, under the authority of God and to the glory of God.
- R. C. Sproul
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We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.
- Max Lucado
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There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God, which evidently distinguishes them from the feeble imitations of men.--Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims his glory.
- John Newton
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
- Assorted Authors
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The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves--so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me."
- Charles Spurgeon
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The godly man contrarily is afraid of nothing; not of God, because he knows Him his best friend, and will not hurt him; not of Satan, because he cannot hurt him; not of afflictions, because he knows they come from a loving God, and end in his good; not of the creatures, since "the very stones in the field are in league with Him;" not of himself, since his conscience is at peace.
- Joseph Hall
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Godliness is the curious embroidery and workmanship of the Holy Ghost: a soul furnished with godliness is damasked with beauty, and enameled with purity: this is the "clothing of wrought gold" which makes the King of heaven fall in love with us.
- Thomas Watson
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What a curious workmanship is that of the eye, which is in the body, as the sun in the world; set in the head as in a watch-tower, having the softest nerves for receiving the greater multitude of spirits necessary for the act of vision!
- Stephen Charnock
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Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
- George Washington Carver
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For indeed, grace is the key to it all. It is not our lavish good deeds that procure salvation, but God's lavish love and mercy. That is why the poor are as acceptable before God as the rich. It is the generosity of God, the freeness of his salvation that lays the foundation for the society of justice for all. Even in the seemingly boring rules and regulations of tabernacle rituals, we see that God cares about the poor, that his laws make provision for the disadvantaged. God's concern for justice permeated every part of Israel's life. It should also permeate our lives.
- Tim Keller
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God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.
- Max Lucado
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If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
- Zig Ziglar
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God's love is the most awesome thing about Him. It is not His justice, nor His majesty, nor even His blazing holiness, but the fact that He has made and keeps a covenant of personal commitment and love to His people.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you.
- Augustine
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When He took on Him the form of a servant in our nature, He became what He had never been before, but He did not cease to be what He always had been in His divine nature. He who is God cannot ever cease to be God.
- John Owen
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Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
- Josh McDowell
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God must be the very first thought and the very last thought in the life of every disciple of Jesus. God must be the centre as well as the circumference of our lives. We live and move in Him, within the circle that He has drawn for us. And within that circle we will always find Him (Acts 17:26,27).
- Zac Poonen
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The soul's deepest thirst is for God Himself, who has made us so that we can never be satisfied without Him.
- F.F. Bruce
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Do I walk as a heavenly man--my ways, my conversation, the ways and conversation of a man whom Christ has stooped to wash in His blood?
- G.V. Wigram
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The statement that 'God is dead' comes from Nietzsche and has recently been trumpeted abroad by some German and American theologians. But the good Lord has not died of this; He who dwells in the heaven laughs at them.
- Karl Barth
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Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.
- Alexander MacLaren
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To deny that God seeks to bless his people is to envision a God who ignores his own recorded words.
- RM Harrington
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.
- Ronald Reagan
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That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.
- Blaise Pascal
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Godly character is not the result of good intentions, wishful thinking, some mystical "zap," or even sheer Bible knowledge. It's developed through the self-disciplined application of God's Word at a very basic level, enabled and empowered by God's Spirit.
- John MacArthur
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God is not a cosmic killjoy. I know some people who believe He is. They think God runs around saying, "There's one having fun; get him!" They believe God wants to rain on everybody's parade. But that isn't so. God made you. He knows how you operate best. And He knows what makes you happy. The happiness He gives doesn't stop when the party's over. It lasts because it comes from deep within.
- John MacArthur
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No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men, more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of Providential agency.
- George Washington
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A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good.
- F.B. Meyer
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You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint.
- A. J. Gossip
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If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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The abstinence is not to be an end in itself but rather for the purpose of being separated to the Lord and to concentrate on godliness. This kind of fasting reduces the influence of our self-will and invites the Holy Spirit to do a more intense work in us.
- William Thrasher
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The way to be truly happy is to be truly human, and the way to be truly human is to be truly godly.
- J.I. Packer
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Do you find a single occasion in which Christ ever acted independently of God? If you walk in the same path it will be sweet to you to feel your entire dependency, finding in all difficulties the everlasting arms underneath.
- G.V. Wigram
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Consider the end of God's decrees - and this is no other than His own glory. Every rational agent acts for an end; and God being the most perfect agent, and His glory the highest end, there can be no doubt but all His decrees are directed to that end. "For to Him are all things" (Rom. 11.36).
- Thomas Boston
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) "toward the goal of true maturity" (Rom 12:2 JBP).
- Elisabeth Elliot
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God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- Augustine
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The sweetest scents are only obtained by tremendous pressure; the fairest flowers grow amid Alpine show-solitudes; the fairest gems have suffered longest from the lapidary's wheel; the noblest statues have borne most blows of the chisel. All, however, are under law. Nothing happens that has not been appointed with consummate care and foresight.
- F.B. Meyer
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When we seek His word above all others, His encouragement before all others, His truth instead of all others, then we will be pleasing to Him more than all others.
- Woodrow Kroll
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The Gospel is neither religion nor irreligion - it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of salvation, while irreligion makes the individual a law to him - or herself. The Gospel, however, is that Jesus takes the law of God so seriously that He paid the penalty of disobedience, so we can be saved by sheer grace.
- Tim Keller
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The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
- Andrew Murray
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Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything.
- Dave Hunt
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If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
- Alistair Begg
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As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean, as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could understand would be no God. If we could grasp Him, He could not be infinite. If we could understand Him, He could not be divine.
- Charles Spurgeon
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An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
- A. W. Pink
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Why grow we weary when asked to watch with our Lord? Up, sluggish heart, Jesus calls thee! Rise and go forth to meet the Heavenly Friend in the place where He manifests Himself.
- E.M. Bounds
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
- Frederick Buechner
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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It is, in a great measure, by rising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.
- Albert Barnes
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We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us. That's His nature.
- Thomas Watson
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Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace.
- Augustine
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The nature of God's love is unchangeable. Ours alternates all to readily. If it is our habit to love God with our own affection we shall turn cold towards Him whenever we are unhappy.
- Watchman Nee
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He can use our mistakes to reveal to our children our complete dependence on a perfect God.
- Crystal McDowell
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So cultivate the soul that all its powers will open out to God, and in beholding God be drawn away from sin.
- Henry Drummond
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This boundless desire had not its original from man itself; nothing would render itself restless; something above the bounds of this world implanted those desires after a higher good, and made him restless in everything else. And since the soul can only rest is something infinite, there is something infinite for it to rest in.
- Stephen Charnock
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God has a holy temper, but He has a very long fuse! Even those who deny and blaspheme His name are recipients of His patience and long-suffering. He permits His enemies to live, to spew forth their horrid blasphemies, all the while blessing them with food and air and earthly pleasures (see Romans 2:4-5).
- Sam Storms
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It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapors of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
- John Owen
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Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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True godliness leaves the world convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the only explanation for you, is Jesus Christ to whose eternally unchanging and altogether adequate "I AM!" your heart has learned to say with unshatterable faith, "Thou art!"
- Major Ian Thomas
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The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
- Assorted Authors
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Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.'
- C.S. Lewis
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Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.
- Dwight L. Moody
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What is the Spiritual Environment? It is God. Without this, therefore, there is no life, no thought, no energy, nothing---"without Me ye can do nothing."
- Henry Drummond
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Our God is not an impotent God with one arm; but as He is slow to anger, so is He great in power.
- Abraham Wright
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From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.
- C.S. Lewis
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Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.
- C.S. Lewis
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We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God.
- Oswald Chambers
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Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!
- Charles Spurgeon
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A man adopts one for his son and heir that does not at all resemble him; but whosoever God adopts for His child is like Him; he not only bears His heavenly Father's name, but His image (Col. 3:10).
- Thomas Watson
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To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God.
- C.S. Lewis
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He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition.
- C.S. Lewis
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.
- Isaac Watts
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There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft.
- C.S. Lewis
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The permanence of God's character guarantees the fulfillment of his promises.
- A. W. Pink
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It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your profession of faith, that here can quench the thirst. The home-sickness goes out after God Himself... it is not the name of God but God Himself whom your soul desires and cannot do without.
- Abraham Kuyper
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Depend upon it, however, let men rebel against this truth as they will, that God has determined the end from the beginning. He has left no screw loose in the machine, He has left nothing to chance or accident.
- Charles Spurgeon
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God saves us from the reductionism of such legalism which enshrines spirituality as a series of wooden laws and then says, "If you can do these six, sixteen or sixty-six things, you will godly." Christianity, godliness, is far more than a checklist. Being "in Christ" is a relationship, and like all relationships it deserves disciplined maintenance, but never legalistic reductionism.
- R. Kent Hughes
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In America, from the beginning, economic liberty, political justice, and shared friendship with God have been understood as compatible, even essentially linked, human goods.
- Alan Keyes
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There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a study of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity,
- Charles Spurgeon
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Since He is the only God, the Creator of heaven and earth, He cannot endure that any creature of His own hands, or fiction of a creature's imagination should be thrust into His throne, and be made to wear His crown.
- Charles Spurgeon
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It is not a strange thing for the soul to find its life in God. This is its native air. God as the Environment of the soul has been from the remotest age the doctrine of all the deepest thinkers in religion. How profoundly Hebrew poetry is saturated with this high thought will appear when we try to conceive of it with this left out.
- Henry Drummond
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Forever from the hand that takes one blessing from us, others fall; and soon or late, our Father makes his perfect recompense to all.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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The difference God's timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
- C.S. Lewis
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If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
- Adoniram Judson
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There is something inexpressibly pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation, and we have none; to know that God's honor is not violated, but on the contrary, shines more illustrious; to know that God's law is not injured, but magnified and made honorable; to know that we are safe, and God has all the glory.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
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Though, in debating with regard to theories, it be lawful to say whether this or that is consistent with the Divine attributes, yet, when we find that God has actually done anything, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out of place.
- Assorted Authors
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There is a Sense of Sound. Neglect this, leave it undeveloped, and you never miss it. Develop it, and you hear God. And the line along which to develop it is known to us. Obey Christ.
- Henry Drummond
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He, who counts the very hairs of our heads and suffers not a sparrow to fall without him, takes note of the minutest matters that can affect the lives of his children, and regulates them all according to his perfect will, let their origin be what they may.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
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My life is a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
- Thomas Merton
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Certainly we should be very active in seeking God, and Jesus himself called us to 'ask, seek, knock' in order to find him. Yet those who enter a relationship with God inevitably look back and recognize that God's grace had sought them out, breaking them open to new realities.
- Tim Keller
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God is pleased with nothing but His Own will. Nothing else can satisfy His heart.
- Watchman Nee
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A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing, Our helper he amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing.
- Martin Luther
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Looking for God--or Heaven--by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters.
- C.S. Lewis
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Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor.
- Charles Spurgeon
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It is not your idea, not your understanding, not your thinking, not your reasoning, not even your profession of faith, that here can quench the thirst. The home-sickness goes out after God Himself... it is not the name of God but God Himself whom your soul desires and cannot do without.
- Abraham Kuyper
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There are no measures which can set forth the immeasurable greatness of Jehovah, who is goodness itself... Notes of exclamation suit us when words of explanation are of no avail. If we cannot measure we can marvel; and though we may not calculate with accuracy, we can adore with fervency.
- Charles Spurgeon
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How can you give up the world? Just do what you ought to do, and it will give you up.
- Jack Hyles
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As Caesar demands of us the stamp of his likeness, so does God also. And as we render money to the one, so we give our souls to the other, our souls enlightened and sealed with the light of His countenance.
- Assorted Authors
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God's not dead today. He's more alive than ever. In fact, He is the only one who is alive.
- Lester Roloff
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How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
- Thomas Aquinas
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You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint.
- A.J. Gossip
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The loving-kindness of the Lord is an essential part of Himself; His severity is accidental. One belongs to Himself, the other to external circumstances.
- Assorted Authors
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Don't you mind him,' said Puddleglum. 'There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan.'
- C.S. Lewis
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He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
- Charles Spurgeon
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In America, from the beginning, economic liberty, political justice, and shared friendship with God have been understood as compatible, even essentially linked, human goods.
- Alan Keyes
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The voice of God is always in balance with His word, and His word will lead us out of the dumps and towards truth.
- Crystal McDowell
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Knowing God is more than knowing about Him; it is a matter of dealing with Him as He opens up to you, and being dealt with by Him as He takes knowledge of you. Knowing about Him is a necessary precondition of trusting in Him, but the width of our knowledge about Him is no gauge of our knowledge of Him.
- J.I. Packer
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What makes a man a good artist, a good sculptor, a good musician? Practice... What makes a man a good man? Practice. Nothing else. There is nothing capricious about religion. We do not get the soul in different ways, under different laws, from those in which we get the body and the mind.
- Henry Drummond
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In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity only one.
- Horatius Bonar
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The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times. God is forever what at that moment, three thousand years ago; He told Moses that He was.
- J.I. Packer
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God has a course mapped out for your life, and all the inadequacies in the world will not change His mind. He will be with you every step of the way. And though it may take time, He has a celebration planned for when you cross over the Red Seas of your life.
- Charles Stanley
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We have all been encouraged to feel in the guardianship and guidance of that Almighty Being whose power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been so conspicuously dispensed to this rising Republic.
- Assorted Authors
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When our founding fathers put their signatures on the Declaration of Independence, those 56 brave people, most of whom by the way were clergymen, they said that we had certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator.
- Mike Huckabee
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Therefore the Christian heart, since it has been thoroughly persuaded that all things happen by God's plan, and that nothing takes place by chance, will ever look to him as the principal causes of things, yet will give attention to the secondary causes in their proper place.
- John Calvin
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I really don't think ... you are in a bargaining position with God. He is the Master. He is the Commanding Officer. It is not for you to have input. It is simply for you to accept the orders as the orders are given.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.
- Assorted Authors
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There is no need for two to care, for God to care and the creature too.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. God's saving love in Christ, however, is marked by both radical truthfulness about who we are and yet also radical, unconditional commitment to us. The merciful commitment strengthens us to see the truth about ourselves and repent. The conviction and repentance moves us to cling to and rest in God's mercy and grace.
- Tim Keller
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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.
- Tim Keller
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Urgently we do need a revival of personal godliness. This is, indeed; the secret if church prosperity. When individuals fall from their steadfastness, the church is tossed to and fro; when personal faith is steadfast, the church abides true to her Lord.
- Charles Spurgeon
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In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the Gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.
- Tim Keller
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The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all of our actions.
- Thomas Watson
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You cannot open the pages of the New Testament without realizing that one of the things that makes it so 'new', in every way, is that here men and women call God 'Father'. This conviction, that we can speak to the Maker of the universe in such intimate terms, lies at the heart of the Christian faith. Through Christ, says Paul, we have 'access to the Father'.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
- Origen
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None but God can satisfy the longings of the immortal soul; as the heart was made for him, he only can fill it.
- Richard Chenevix Trench
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Since nothing but God is eternal, nothing but God is worth the loving.
- Stephen Charnock
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Our God is not an impotent God with one arm; but as He is slow to anger, so is He great in power.
- Abraham Wright
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Because God disciplines those He loves, He will take drastic measures to get our attention if we need to grow up spiritually.
- Crystal McDowell
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Conscience, in the cause of religion and the worship of the Deity, prepares the mind to act and to suffer beyond almost all other causes.
- Daniel Webster
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Martin Luther said once, 'If I were God, I'd kick the world to pieces.' But Martin Luther wasn't God. God is God, and God has never kicked the world to pieces. He keeps re-entering the world. He keeps offering himself to the world by grace, keeps somehow blessing the world, making possible a kind of life which we all, in our deepest being, hunger for.
- Frederick Buechner
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The key to godliness is not more knowledge but more obedience.
- Woodrow Kroll
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Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.
- Alexander MacLaren
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What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not the poor device of man.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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If there is one maverick molecule in all the universe, then God is not sovereign. And if God is not sovereign, He is not God.
- R. C. Sproul
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Remember, God knows about every tear which comes to our eyes. Christ cares and is concerned about us. Your heartaches are known to Him.
- Lee Roberson
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God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
- Richard Baxter
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I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.
- Franklin Graham
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Men cannot open their eyes without being compelled to see Him [and] wherever you cast your eyes, there is no spot in the universe wherein you cannot discern at least some sparks of His glory.
- John Calvin
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Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.
- Isaac Watts
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Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
- C.S. Lewis
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God is God. Because He is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will, a will that is unspeakably beyond my largest notions of what He is up to.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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To be discontinuous from God as I am discontinuous from you would be annihilation.
- C.S. Lewis
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Everyone has an image of God distorted in some way--we must, of course, since God transcends our capacities to imagine him.
- Phillips Brooks
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I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.
- Assorted Authors
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To deliberately seek or glorify any form of guidance is an outright invitation to spiritual deception, we are not to seek or specify how God should speak, but only seek Him in any way that He wishes to make Himself known.
- Winkie Pratney
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In order to know God, we must often think of Him; and when we come to love Him, we shall then also think of Him often, for our heart will be with our treasure.
- Brother Lawrence
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The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.
- Judge Roy Moore
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Not only then has each man his individual relation to God, but each man has his peculiar relation to God.
- George Macdonald
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If God is adding to our spiritual stature, unfolding the new nature within us, it is a mistake to keep twitching at the petals with our coarse fingers. We must seek to let the Creative Hand alone. "It is God which giveth the increase."
- Henry Drummond
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There is nothing so masterly as inactivity in some things, and there is nothing so hurtful as restless working, for God has undertaken to work His sovereign will.
- A. B. Simpson
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We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate our redemption. God's love, grace, and mercy shine all the brighter against the awful reality of evil. Indeed, the very existence of evil is a powerful proof of God's existence and holiness.
- Dave Hunt
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Thank God you have got a Father that can be angry, but that loves you as much when He is angry as when He smiles upon you.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their dream of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
- Tim Keller
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You called, You cried, You shattered my deafness, You sparkled, You blazed, You drove away my blindness, You shed Your fragrance, and I drew in my breath, and I pant for You.
- Augustine
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C.S. Lewis
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I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.
- Mike Huckabee
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He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
- William Law
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What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.
- J.I. Packer
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God hath decreed the end, so He hath decreed the means that are proper for attaining that end; so that these two must not be separated.
- Thomas Boston
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There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.
- Thomas a Kempis
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God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- C.S. Lewis
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God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
- Daniel Webster
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If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.
- William Lane Craig
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Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman.
- George Washington
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
- C.S. Lewis
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God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to man in language about both spiritual reality and physical reality, about the nature of God and the nature of man.
- Francis Schaeffer
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Our knowledge of God is paradoxically not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us. It is in proportion, as we are known to him that we find our real being and identity in Christ. We know him in and through ourselves in so far as his truth is the source of our being and his merciful love is the very heart of our life and existence.
- Thomas Merton
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Doth God give us a Christ, and will he deny us a crust? If God doth not give us what we crave, He will give us what we need.
- Thomas Watson
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The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.
- Assorted Authors
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We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
- Phillips Brooks
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
- A. B. Simpson
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Any attempt to lock God up in a box, whatever its shape, will inevitably lead to contradictions and failed hypotheses.
- Dr. Edgar Andrews
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The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
- C.S. Lewis
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The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
- A. W. Tozer
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If the God of heaven is occupied with us, how many thoughts ought not we to have of that God? It is only as occupied with God and with Christ that we can be unworldly.
- G.V. Wigram
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There are soft moments even to desperadoes. God does not, all at once, abandon even them.
- Richard Cecil
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Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. It is the damning hypocrisy of this age that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness without the power of it.
- Thomas Fuller
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When we think of God, we are apt to think of Him in human form. In the Epiphanies of the Old Testament God revealed Himself to Joshua and others in human form. He puts Himself within the compass of our highest conception, in order that He may make Himself real to us in His love and sympathy and power.
- A. C. Dixon
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It is absolutely illogical to believe that nothing produces something, or that profoundly intricate designs have come into existence by self-generation. The more simple and natural conclusion is that there is an immeasurably great Creator and Benefactor back of all the remarkable existences which we observe and experience.
- Assorted Authors
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Someone who knows God has evidence--and therefore prejudices based on that evidence--which someone who does not know God does not have.
- Peter Kreeft
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God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.
- Stephen Charnock
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The books of Nature and of Revelation equally elevate our conceptions and invite our piety; they are both written by the finger of the one eternal, incomprehensible God.
- Thomas Watson
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It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.
- Basilea Schlink
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Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.
- Assorted Authors
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Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to ascribe what we meet with either to good or ill luck and fortune. There are many events in the world which men look upon as mere accidents, yet all these come by the counsel and appointment of Heaven.
- Thomas Boston
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When God speaks He speaks so loudly that all the voices of the world seem dumb. And yet when God speaks He speaks so softly that no one hears the whisper but yourself.
- Henry Drummond
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It is, in a great measure, by rising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.
- Albert Barnes
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Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
- William Carey
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It is beyond dispute that some awareness of God exists in the human mind by natural instinct, since God Himself has given everyone some idea of Him so that no one can plead ignorance.
- John Calvin
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We are told in scripture that with God all things are possible. But Lewis states that this does not mean that God can do anything. God cannot, for example, answer nonsensical questions...He cannot do both of two mutually exclusive things; for example, He cannot create creatures with free will and at the same time withhold free will from them.
- Assorted Authors
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If you have a God infinite and powerful enough for you to be angry at for allowing evil, then you must at the same time have a God infinite enough to have sufficient reasons for allowing that evil.
- Tim Keller
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What an immense workman is God! In miniature as well as in the great. With the one hand, perhaps, He is making a ring of one hundred thousand miles in diameter, to revolve round a planet like Saturn, and with the other is forming a tooth in the ray of the feather of a humming-bird, or a point in the claw of the foot of a microscopic insect. When He works in miniature, everything is gilded, polished, and perfect, but whatever is made by human art, as a needle, etc., when viewed by a microscope, appears rough, and coarse, and bungling.
- William Law
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If we had absolute proof instead of clues, then you could no more deny God than you could deny the sun. If we had no evidence at all, you could never get there. God gives us just enough evidence so that those who want him can have him.
- Peter Kreeft
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God cannot be comprehended by us, except as far as he accommodates himself to our standard.
- John Calvin
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This revealed will of God is either manifested to us in His Word, or in His works. The former is His commanding will, the latter His affecting or permitting will.
- John Flavel
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It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
- Thomas Brooks
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Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.
- Richard J. Foster
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You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
- Alan Keyes
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But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
- Origen
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When therefore the first spark of a desire after God arises in thy soul, cherish it with all thy care, give all thy heart into it; it is nothing less than a touch of the divine loadstone, that is to draw thee out of the vanity of time, into the riches of eternity.
- William Law
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
- Alexandre Vinet
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
- John Calvin
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No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.
- C.S. Lewis
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There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.
- Sam Storms
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I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness.
- Henry Drummond
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The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.
- Richard J. Foster
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Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
- Origen
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A changeable God would be a terror to the righteous, they would have no sure anchorage, and amid a changing world they would be driven to and fro in perpetual fear of shipwreck. ...Our heart leaps for joy as we bow before One who has never broken His word or changed His purpose.
- Charles Spurgeon
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As a 'Godly Woman in Progress' are you choosing to keep your heart with all vigilance, realizing that from it flows the springs of life?
- Patricia Ennis
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Everyone has an image of God distorted in some way--we must, of course, since God transcends our capacities to imagine him.
- Philip Yancey
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God is not confined to the outermost circle of environment, He lives and moves and has His being in the whole. Those who only seek Him in the further zone can only find a part. The Christian who knows not God in Nature, who does not, that is to say, correspond with the whole environment, most certainly is partially dead.
- Henry Drummond
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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him requires a lot of courage and know-how.
- Thomas Merton
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Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and the fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory and gathered themselves up and disappeared.'
- C.S. Lewis
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God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.
- James H. Aughey
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Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love. He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate.
- Alan Redpath
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Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kin, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator.
- J.I. Packer
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Our god is the thing, or person, which we think most precious, for whom we would make the greatest sacrifice, and who moves our heart with the warmest love. He is the person or thing that if lost would leave us desolate.
- Alan Redpath
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If the universe is so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?
- C.S. Lewis
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Luther looks at all the jobs that are out there and he says, These are the masks of God, behind which He wants to remain concealed, and do all things. Christians have to be profoundly appreciative of good work done on absolutely everything.
- Tim Keller
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Since therefore all things are ordered in subserviency to the good of man, they are so ordered by Him that made both man and them.
- Stephen Charnock
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Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the divine existence.
- John Wesley
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We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
- Philip Yancey
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Although God always thinks and acts in perfect harmony with His nature, His nature is infinitely complex. His personality is deep and rich and diverse and ultimately inexhaustible. Just when you've got Him figured out, He'll surprise you (but always in a good way).
- Sam Storms
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The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
- Thomas Merton
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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.
- William Gurnall
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God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the air or light, nearer than my wife, father, mother, daughter, son, or friend. I live in Him, soul and body. I breathe in Him, think in Him, feel, consider, intend, speak, undertake, work in Him.
- John of Kronstadt
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The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
- Andrew Murray
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He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, because perfect love giveth sure access to God. But he who still delighteth in sin, no marvel if he is afraid of death and judgment.
- Thomas a Kempis
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America is not just one nation under God, she is also 50 sovereign states under God.
- Judge Roy Moore
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When we are in danger, He is the Protector. When we are in need, He is the Provider. When we are under attack, He is the Defender.
- Crystal McDowell
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You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.
- Alan Keyes
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He is not a God of confusion, of discordance, or accidental, random, private courses in the execution of His will, but of determinate, regulated, prescribed action.
- John Henry Newman
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Alas! Much has been done of late to promote the production of dwarfish Christians. Poor, sickly believers turn the church into a hospital, rather than an army. Oh, to have a church built up with the deep godliness of people who know the Lord in their very hearts, and will seek to follow the Lamb wherever he goes!
- Charles Spurgeon
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Is man in correspondence with the whole environment or is he not? ... He is not. Of men generally it cannot be said that they are in living contact with that part of the environment which is called the spiritual world.
- Henry Drummond
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God desires to be loved by men, although He needs them not; and men refuse to love God, though they need Him in an infinite degree.
- Assorted Authors
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
- Frederick Buechner
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The Life of the senses, high and low, may perfect itself in Nature. Even the Life of thought may find a large complement in surrounding things. But the higher thought, and the conscience, and the religious Life, can only perfect themselves in God.
- Henry Drummond
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To love God does not mean to meet His needs, but rather to delight in Him and to be captivated by His glorious power and grace, and to value Him above all other things on earth. All the rest of the commandments are the kinds of things that we will do from our hearts, if our hearts are truly delighted with and resting in the glory of God's grace.
- John Piper
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The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
- Martin Luther
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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
- George Washington Carver
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
- J.I. Packer
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Men box God into the contents of personal experiences, and then seek to define his attributes by this limited exposure to eternity.
- RM Harrington
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Perhaps you began to question God's love or His wisdom. Maybe you were afraid to say that He was wrong, but you sort of said, "God, you deceived me in letting me believe that this was the right thing to do. Why didn't you stop me?" A whole lot of wrong things can happen if you try to look at God from the middle of circumstances.
- Henry Blackaby
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