| Quotation 1 : | DIVINE
"Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within." |
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| Quotation 2 : | DIVINE
"May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 3 : | DIVINE
"Christ is the key which unlocks the golden doors into the temple of Divine truth." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 4 : | DIVINE
"The vision of the Divine Presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 5 : | DIVINE
"The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 6 : | DIVINE
"There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe." |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 7 : | DIVINE
"There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with" |
| A.B. Simpson |
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| Quotation 8 : | DIVINE
"By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 9 : | DIVINE
"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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| Quotation 10 : | DIVINE
"Troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your per" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 11 : | DIVINE
"Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 12 : | DIVINE
"The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories." |
| Abraham Wright |
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| Quotation 13 : | DIVINE
"I will is no word for man. There is a far diviner one, "I ought." Bow passion to reason, reason to conscience, and conscience to God, and then be as resolute and determined as you choose." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 14 : | DIVINE
"Faith has in it the recognition of the certainty and the justice of a judgment that is coming down crashing on every human head; and then from the midst of these fears and sorrows and the tempest of that great darkness there rises up in the night of terro" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 15 : | DIVINE
"Oh! it irradiates all our days with lofty beauty, and it makes them all hallowed and divine, when we feel that not the apparent greatness, not the prominence nor noise with which it is done, nor the external consequences which flow from it, but the motive" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 16 : | DIVINE
"The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 17 : | DIVINE
"The greater perfection a soul aspires after, the more dependent it is upon divine grace." |
| Brother Lawrence |
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| Quotation 18 : | DIVINE
"One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations." |
| Ludwig von Beethoven |
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| Quotation 19 : | DIVINE
"To return good for good is human; to return evil for evil is brutal; to return evil for good is diabolical; but to return good for evil is Divine." |
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| Quotation 20 : | DIVINE
"True faith, by a mighty effort of the will, fixes its gaze on our Divine Helper, and there finds it possible and wise to lose its fears. It is madness to say, "I will not be afraid;" it is wisdom and peace to say, "I will trust and not be afraid."" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 21 : | DIVINE
"While the agent of renovation is the Divine Spirit, and the condition of renovation is our cleaving to Christ, the medium of renovation and the weapon which the transforming grace employs is "the word of the truth of the gospel," whereby we are sanctified" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 22 : | DIVINE
"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 any thing, all question about its justice, wisdom, and benevolence is forever out" |
| Nehemiah Adams |
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| Quotation 23 : | DIVINE
"In the infinite wisdom of the Lord of all the earth, each event falls with exact precision into its proper place in the unfolding of His divine plan. Nothing, however small, however strange, occurs without His ordering, or without its particular fitness f" |
| B.B. Warfield |
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| Quotation 24 : | DIVINE
"When the Christian asserts his faith in the divine origin of his Bible, he does not mean to deny that it was composed and written by men or that it was given by men to the world. He believes that the marks of its human origin are ineradicably stamped on e" |
| B.B. Warfield |
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| Quotation 25 : | DIVINE
"There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects." |
| Billy Sunday |
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| Quotation 26 : | DIVINE
"Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 27 : | DIVINE
"The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 28 : | DIVINE
"Human things must be known to be loved; but Divine things must be loved to be known." |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| Quotation 29 : | DIVINE
"The proximate result of obedience to God is inward conformity to the Divine image." |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 30 : | DIVINE
"Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work. Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministe" |
| Charles Hodge |
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| Quotation 31 : | DIVINE
"I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 32 : | DIVINE
"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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| Quotation 33 : | DIVINE
"God in his infinite mercy has devised a way by which justice can be satisfied, and yet mercy can be triumphant. Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, took upon himself the form of man, and offered unto Divine Justice that which was accepted as an" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 34 : | DIVINE
"In Gods case, if He had said in the infinite sovereignty of His absolute will, "I will have no substitute, but each man shall suffer for himself, he who sinneth shall die," none could have murmured. It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind t" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 35 : | DIVINE
"Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 36 : | DIVINE
"Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 37 : | DIVINE
"Rebellion against divine election is often founded on the idea that the sinner has a sort of right to be saved, and this is to deny the full desert of sin." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 38 : | DIVINE
"The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not the" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 39 : | DIVINE
"There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of Divine Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe troubles, they believe that Sovereignty hath ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overru" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 40 : | DIVINE
"When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nat" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 41 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no" |
| Lee Strobel |
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| Quotation 42 : | DIVINE BREATH
"A doctor once told me of a child who could not breathe when it was born. In order to make it breathe doctor gave it a slight blow. ...he was really doing the kindest thing possible. As with newborn children the lungs are contracted, so are our spiritual l" |
| Sadhu Sundar Singh |
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| Quotation 43 : | DIVINE BREATH
"In a Tibetan village I noticed a crowd of people standing under a burning tree and looking up into the branches. I came near and discovered in the branches a bird which was anxiously flying round a nest full of young ones. The mother bird wanted to save h" |
| Sadhu Sundar Singh |
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| Quotation 44 : | DIVINE BREATH
"God's revelatory manifestation of Himself in creation, in providence, in Scripture, and pre-eminently in the face of His Son, Jesus Christ, is designed to evoke within the breathtaking delight and incomparable joy of which God alone is worthy. Beauty is t" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 45 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Labor is life: from the inmost heart of the worker rises his God-given force, the sacred celestial life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God!" |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Quotation 46 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Christ is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for al" |
| William Law |
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| Quotation 47 : | DIVINE BREATH
"The morality of clean blood ought to be one of the first lessons taught us by our pastors and teachers. The physical is the substratum of the spiritual; and this fact ought to give to the food we eat, and the air we breathe, a transcendent significance." |
| William Tyndale |
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| Quotation 48 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life." |
| Jonathan Edwards |
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| Quotation 49 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father." |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 50 : | DIVINE BREATH
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 51 : | DIVINE BREATH
"You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray." |
| Matthew Henry |
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| Quotation 52 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord." |
| Thomas Brooks |
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| Quotation 53 : | DIVINE BREATH
"No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)" |
| Desiderius Erasmus |
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| Quotation 54 : | DIVINE BREATH
"The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight." |
| William Cowper |
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| Quotation 55 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 56 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 57 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Emmanuel. God with us. He who resided in Heaven, co-equal and co-eternal with the Father and the Spirit, willingly descended into our world. He breathed our air, felt our pain, knew our sorrows, and died for our sins. He didn't come to frighten us, but to" |
| Chuck Swindoll |
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| Quotation 58 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chi" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 59 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 60 : | DIVINE BREATH
"In the natural world we absorb heat, breathe air, draw on Environment all but automatically for meat and drink, for the nourishment of the senses, for mental stimulus, for all that, penetrating us from without, can prolong, enrich, and elevate life. But i" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 61 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Faith receiveth the promise, embraceth it, and comforteth the soul unspeakably with it. Faith is so great an artist in arguing and reasoning with the soul, that it will bring over the hardest heart that it hath to deal with. It will bring to my remembranc" |
| John Bunyan |
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| Quotation 62 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 63 : | DIVINE BREATH
"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," |
| John of Kronstadt |
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| Quotation 64 : | DIVINE BREATH
"All understandings of all things that do not take God into consideration are superficial understandings, since they do not reckon with the true deepest connections with all things with what really matters in the universe, namely God. We today in America c" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 65 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and that Scripture is, in fact, God's Word written, which therefore is true and reliable and has divine aut" |
| John Stott |
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| Quotation 66 : | DIVINE BREATH
"The true spirit of prayer is no other than God's own Spirit dwelling in the hearts of the saints. And as this spirit comes from God, so doth it naturally tend to God in holy breathings and pantings. It naturally leads to God, to converse with him by praye" |
| Jonathan Edwards |
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| Quotation 67 : | DIVINE BREATH
"The Word of God is the breath of God." |
| Woodrow Kroll |
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| Quotation 68 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then," |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 69 : | DIVINE BREATH
"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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| Quotation 70 : | DIVINE BREATH
"If you want the truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world it will fly; it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 71 : | DIVINE BREATH
"You are hanging over the mouth of hell by a single thread, and that thread is breaking. Only a gasp for breath, only a stopping of the heart for a single moment, and you will be in an eternal world, without God, without hope, without forgiveness. Oh, can" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 72 : | DIVINE BREATH
"A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough today to last him for the next 6 months, nor can he inhale sufficient air into his lungs with one breath to sustain life for a week to come. We are permitted to draw upon Go" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 73 : | DIVINE BREATH
"If a man's religion does not get into every detail of his life he may profess to be a saint, but he's a fraud. Religion ought to permeate life and make it beautiful--as lovely as a breath of perfume from the garden of the Lord." |
| Gipsy Smith |
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| Quotation 74 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too." |
| J.C. Ryle |
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| Quotation 75 : | DIVINE BREATH
"As in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works." |
| Joseph Hall |
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| Quotation 76 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive." |
| Oswald Chambers |
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| Quotation 77 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Prayer is the breath of the new creature." |
| Richard Baxter |
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| Quotation 78 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Let friendship creep gently to a height; if it rushes to it, it may soon run itself out of breath." |
| Thomas Fuller |
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| Quotation 79 : | DIVINE BREATH
"If we think of prayer as the breath of our lungs and the blood from our hearts, we think rightly. The blood flows and the breathing continues - we are not conscious of it but it is always going on." |
| Oswald Chambers |
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| Quotation 80 : | DIVINE BREATH
"God just doesn't throw a life preserver to a drowning person. He goes to the bottom of the sea, and pulls a corpse from the bottom of the sea, takes him up on the bank, breathes into him the breath of life and makes him alive." |
| R.C. Sproul |
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| Quotation 81 : | DIVINE BREATH
"To harmonize the thoughts and imaginations of men the presence of the stimulating breath of the Holy Spirit is necessary. When that is present there will be produced heavenly airs and joyous harmonies in men's hearts, both in this life and in heaven." |
| Sadhu Sundar Singh |
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| Quotation 82 : | DIVINE BREATH
"Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope."" |
| William Gurnall |
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| Quotation 83 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead." |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Quotation 84 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 85 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures." |
| Francis Bacon |
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| Quotation 86 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there." |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| Quotation 87 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path." |
| Jean Anouilh |
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| Quotation 88 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground." |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 89 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?" |
| Scott Reed |
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| Quotation 90 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 91 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow." |
| Penelope Keith |
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| Quotation 92 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required." |
| Ellen G. White |
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| Quotation 93 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust." |
| Gertrude Jekyll |
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| Quotation 94 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness." |
| Stephen Fry |
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| Quotation 95 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it." |
| Bruce Lipton |
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| Quotation 96 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 97 : | DIVINE GARDEN
"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul." |
| Alfred Austin |
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| Quotation 98 : | DIVINE HEART
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| Quotation 99 : | DIVINE HEART
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 100 : | DIVINE HEART
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 101 : | DIVINE HEART
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As wit" |
| Steve Jobs |
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| Quotation 102 : | DIVINE HEART
"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being." |
| James E. Faust |
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| Quotation 103 : | DIVINE HEART
"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you." |
| Paramahansa Yogananda |
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| Quotation 104 : | DIVINE HEART
"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come." |
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| Quotation 105 : | DIVINE HEART
"The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost." |
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| Quotation 106 : | DIVINE HEART
"Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." |
| Paramahansa Yogananda |
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| Quotation 107 : | DIVINE HEART
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 108 : | DIVINE HEART
"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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| Quotation 109 : | DIVINE HEART
"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 110 : | DIVINE HEART
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Quotation 111 : | DIVINE HEART
"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts." |
| Charles Dickens |
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| Quotation 112 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silvern all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!" |
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| Quotation 113 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 114 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 115 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"The "book of nature" must always be read in light of God's special revelation, the Bible." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 116 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"The gospel is called a burden and a yoke, lest we presume; yet light and easy, lest we despair." |
| Euthymius |
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| Quotation 117 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived." |
| Gordon Olson |
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| Quotation 118 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Do not the successes which have crowned some missionary exertions seem like the dawn of morning on the east? O! that this region of Egyptian darkness may ere long participate in the vivifying beams of light." |
| Adoniram Judson |
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| Quotation 119 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"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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| Quotation 120 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the books in his possession - the Old Testament ... nor will there ever be in the world such an advance in religious light, experience, and knowledge, that they wi" |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 121 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 122 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 123 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 124 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"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 dra" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 125 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Every life has dark tracks and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 126 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"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 unworth" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 127 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Revivals begin with God's own people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew, and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones... Oh, what responsibil" |
| Andrew Bonar |
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| Quotation 128 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"May not a single moment of my life be spent outside the light, love and joy of God's presence and not a moment without the entire surrender of myself as a vessel for Him to fill full of His Spirit and His love." |
| Andrew Murray |
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| Quotation 129 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Let us not ask of the Lord deceitful riches, nor the good things of this world, nor transitory honors; but let us ask for light." |
| Gregory Nazianzen |
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| Quotation 130 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength." |
| Robert E. Lee |
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| Quotation 131 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Though the light shines on things unclean, yet it is not thereby defiled." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 132 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall flow in inexhaustible streams, the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it , God will spread His Word. A spring of truth shall flow f" |
| Johannes Gutenberg |
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| Quotation 133 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grave, in England, as I trust shall never be put out." |
| Hugh Latimer |
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| Quotation 134 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"The Christian religion made its way through Paganism, unassisted by the force of human power, and as gentle as the triumphs of light over darkness." |
| Joseph Addison |
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| Quotation 135 : | DIVINE LIGHT
"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." |
| Venerable Bede |
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| Quotation 136 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 137 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." |
| H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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| Quotation 138 : | DIVINE LOVE
"You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover." |
| Alan Cohen |
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| Quotation 139 : | DIVINE LOVE
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." |
| Victor Hugo |
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| Quotation 140 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it." |
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| Quotation 141 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." |
| Aristotle |
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| Quotation 142 : | DIVINE LOVE
"A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love." |
| Max Muller |
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| Quotation 143 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Where there is love there is life." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 144 : | DIVINE LOVE
"There is no remedy for love but to love more." |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Quotation 145 : | DIVINE LOVE
"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Quotation 146 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing." |
| Torquato Tasso |
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| Quotation 147 : | DIVINE LOVE
"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love." |
| Mother Teresa |
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| Quotation 148 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is what you've been through with somebody." |
| James Thurber |
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| Quotation 149 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile." |
| Franklin P. Jones |
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| Quotation 150 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Why ever talk of miracles When you are destined to become Infinite love." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 151 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is the eternal rule." |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 152 : | DIVINE LOVE
"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well." |
| Elizabeth Kubler-Ross |
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| Quotation 153 : | DIVINE LOVE
"From where we are there is always a path toward love. What takes discipline is continually choosing that path." |
| Jesse Pender |
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| Quotation 154 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Trust your intuition and be guided by love." |
| Charles Eisenstein |
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| Quotation 155 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return." |
| Peace Pilgrim |
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| Quotation 156 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." |
| Franklin P. Jones |
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| Quotation 157 : | DIVINE LOVE
"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| Quotation 158 : | DIVINE LOVE
"There is no limit to the power of loving." |
| John Morton |
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| Quotation 159 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 160 : | DIVINE LOVE
"God has the right to be trusted; to be believed that He means what He says; and that His love is dependable." |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 161 : | DIVINE LOVE
"True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." |
| Honore de Balzac |
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| Quotation 162 : | DIVINE LOVE
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always." |
| Mohandas K. Gandhi |
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| Quotation 163 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Learning how to love is the goal and the purpose of spiritual life -- not learning how to develop psychic powers, not learning how to bow, chant, do yoga, or even meditate, but learning to love. Love is the truth. Love is the light." |
| Lama Surya Das |
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| Quotation 164 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love -- love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet." |
| Wayne Dyer |
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| Quotation 165 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." |
| Vincent Van Gogh |
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| Quotation 166 : | DIVINE LOVE
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving." |
| Anatole France |
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| Quotation 167 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could." |
| Barbara de Angelis |
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| Quotation 168 : | DIVINE LOVE
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." |
| Orson Welles |
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| Quotation 169 : | DIVINE LOVE
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronge" |
| Robert Fulghum |
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| Quotation 170 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses." |
| Ann Landers |
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| Quotation 171 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a pe" |
| Jim Morrison |
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| Quotation 172 : | DIVINE LOVE
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another." |
| Jesus Christ |
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| Quotation 173 : | DIVINE LOVE
"We loved with a love that was more than love." |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
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| Quotation 174 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." |
| Kristin Chenoweth |
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| Quotation 175 : | DIVINE LOVE
"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" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 176 : | DIVINE LOVE
"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 crav" |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 177 : | DIVINE LOVE
"You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 178 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Our Lord told His disciples that love and obedience were organically united. The final test of love is obedience." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 179 : | DIVINE LOVE
"The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 180 : | DIVINE LOVE
"The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 181 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit." |
| Adrian Rogers |
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| Quotation 182 : | DIVINE LOVE
"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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| Quotation 183 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Such was God's original love for man that He was willing to stoop to any sacrifice to save him; and the gift of a Saviour was the mere expression of that love." |
| Albert Barnes |
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| Quotation 184 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 185 : | DIVINE LOVE
"The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is." |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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| Quotation 186 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature's will." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 187 : | DIVINE LOVE
"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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| Quotation 188 : | DIVINE LOVE
"You have to live with Him day by day, and year by year, and to learn to know Him as we learn to know husbands and wives, by continual experience of a sweet and unfailing love, by many a sacred hour of interchange of affection and reception of gifts and co" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 189 : | DIVINE LOVE
"It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 190 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission—its masterpiece is, to reunite them." |
| Alexandre Vinet |
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| Quotation 191 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 192 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary l" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 193 : | DIVINE LOVE
"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 unworth" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 194 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I take offence easily; if I am content to continue in cold unfriendliness, though friendship be possible, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 195 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If the ultimate, the hardest, cannot be asked of me; if my fellows hesitate to ask it and turn to someone else, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 196 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If my attitude be one of fear, not faith, about one who has disappointed me; if I say, "Just what I expected," if a fall occurs, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 197 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I belittle those whom I am called to serve, talk of their weak points in contrast perhaps with what I think of as my strong points; if I adopt a superior attitude, forgetting "Who made thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou hast not received?" th" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 198 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 199 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 200 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 201 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I do not look with eyes of hope on all in whom there is even a faint beginning, as our Lord did when, just after His disciples has wrangled about which of them should be accounted the greatest, He softened His rebuke with those heart-melting words, "Ye" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 202 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I am afraid to speak the truth lest I lose affection, or lest the one concerned should say, "You do not understand", or because I fear to lose my reputation for kindness; if I put my own good name before the other's highest good, then I know nothing of" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 203 : | DIVINE LOVE
"You can always give without loving, but you can never love without giving." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 204 : | DIVINE LOVE
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." |
| Helen Keller |
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| Quotation 205 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few." |
| George Jean Nathan |
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| Quotation 206 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." |
| Alexander Smith |
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| Quotation 207 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods." |
| Plato |
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| Quotation 208 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Grieve not the Christ of God, who redeems us; and remember that we grieve Him most when we will not let Him pour His love upon us, but turn a sullen, unresponsive unbelief towards His pleading grace, as some glacier shuts out the sunshine from the mountai" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 209 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 210 : | DIVINE LOVE
"Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy." |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 211 : | DIVINE LOVE
"And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing." |
| Alexander Whyte |
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| Quotation 212 : | DIVINE LOVE
"At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us." |
| Alistair Begg |
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| Quotation 213 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is noth" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 214 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 215 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 216 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I am perturbed by the reproach and misunderstanding that may follow action taken for the good of souls for whom I must give account; if I cannot commit the matter and go on in peace and in silence, remembering Gethsemane and the cross, then I know noth" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 217 : | DIVINE LOVE
"When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of" |
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| Quotation 218 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love." |
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| Quotation 219 : | DIVINE LOVE
"If a sudden jar can cause me to speak an impatient, unloving word, then I know nothing of Calvary love. For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted." |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 220 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and writt" |
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| Quotation 221 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Inspiration is God superintending human authors so that using their own individual personalities, experiences, thought processes and vocabulary they composed and recorded without error His revelation in the original copies of Scripture." |
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| Quotation 222 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"A miracle is an extraordinary event wrought by God through human agency, an event that cannot be explained by natural forces. Miracles are always designed to authenticate the human instrument God has chosen to declare a specific revelation to those who wi" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 223 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"God's Word is a revelation - a revealing of truth to make the dark things light, bringing eternity into bright focus. Granted, there are things in Scripture that are hard to understand. But taken as a whole, the Bible is not a bewildering book." |
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| Quotation 224 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even contrary to historical fact or objective divine revelation." |
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| Quotation 225 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Once a congregation sees Scripture as less than the final, complete, infallible authority for faith and practice, it has opened the doors to theological chaos. Anyone can claim to be speaking God's revelation - and almost anything can be passed off as div" |
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| Quotation 226 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you moral and ethical ideals, but to hold you accountable to the highest standards of right and wrong you know." |
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| Quotation 227 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifi" |
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| Quotation 228 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The "book of nature" must always be read in light of God's special revelation, the Bible." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 229 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 230 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"God did entrust the descendants of Abraham with the first revelation of Himself." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 231 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 232 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest." |
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| Quotation 233 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation." |
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| Quotation 234 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"If we retain only what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at the bar of enlightened common sense, then we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 235 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. To me, it is one of the sweetest and most blessed truths in the whole of revelation, and those who are afraid of" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 236 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself." |
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| Quotation 237 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The great truths of revelation are neither able to preach nor defend themselves. They must have soldier preachers who proclaim and defend them. They have never conquered as silent force, they have never won as a reserve corps." |
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| Quotation 238 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men?" |
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| Quotation 239 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"We settle things by a majority vote, and the psychological effect of doing that is to create the impression that the majority is probably right. Of course, on any fine issue the majority is sure to be wrong. Think of taking a majority vote on the best mus" |
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| Quotation 240 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance t" |
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| Quotation 241 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation." |
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| Quotation 242 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object." |
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| Quotation 243 : | DIVINE REVELATION
"A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 244 : | DIVINE SOUND
"Just as the sinner's despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer's growth in grace." |
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| Quotation 245 : | DIVINE SOUND
"For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who do or teach anything wrong, but it is by all means vital for the lover of truth, regardless of the threat of death, to choose to do and say what is right even before saving his o" |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 246 : | DIVINE SOUND
"We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline practically has disappeared. What would a v" |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 247 : | DIVINE SOUND
"f I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothi" |
| Amy Carmichael |
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| Quotation 248 : | DIVINE SOUND
"Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell." |
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| Quotation 249 : | DIVINE SOUND
"The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless." |
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| Quotation 250 : | DIVINE SOUND
"The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing." |
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| Quotation 251 : | DIVINE SOUND
"Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed, so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is" |
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| Quotation 252 : | DIVINE SOUND
"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 253 : | DIVINE SOUND
"The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 254 : | DIVINE SOUND
"A sound economy is a sound understanding brought into action. It is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies and providing against them; it is expecting contingencies and being prepared for" |
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| Quotation 255 : | DIVINE SOUND
"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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| Quotation 256 : | DIVINE THIRST
"The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 257 : | DIVINE THIRST
"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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| Quotation 258 : | DIVINE THIRST
"God thirsts to be thirsted after." |
| Augustine |
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| Quotation 259 : | DIVINE THIRST
"There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning." |
| Thomas Aquinas |
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| Quotation 260 : | DIVINE THIRST
"I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drink" |
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| Quotation 261 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand." |
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| Quotation 262 : | DIVINE THIRST
"It is Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness; He is waiting for you when nothing else you find satisfies you; He is the beauty to which you are so attracted; it is He who provoked you with that thirst for fullness that will not let you settle for" |
| Pope John Paul II |
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| Quotation 263 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst. A need as vital to the soul as water is to the body. Love is a precious draught that not only soothes a parched throat, but it vitalizes a man. It fortifies him enough that he is willing t" |
| Colleen Houck |
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| Quotation 264 : | DIVINE THIRST
"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 sou" |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 265 : | DIVINE THIRST
"The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 266 : | DIVINE THIRST
"To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Ev" |
| Frederick Buechner |
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| Quotation 267 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an" |
| Frederick W. Robertson |
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| Quotation 268 : | DIVINE THIRST
"The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 269 : | DIVINE THIRST
"The most vital question to ask about all who claim to be Christian is this: Have they a soul thirst for God? Do they long for this? Is there something about them that tells you that they are always waiting for His next manifestation of Himself? Is their l" |
| Martyn Lloyd-Jones |
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| Quotation 270 : | DIVINE THIRST
"What [others] most need is to see in you a reflection of what God is like and of the transforming power of the Gospel. Your life can create hunger and thirst for God in others' lives and can be a powerful instrument in the hand of the Holy Spirit to draw" |
| Nancy Leigh DeMoss |
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| Quotation 271 : | DIVINE THIRST
"You weren't created for boredom or burnout or bondage to sexual lust or greed or ambition but for the incomparable pleasure and matchless joy that knowing Jesus alone can bring. Only then, in Him, will you encounter the life-changing, thirst-quenching, so" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 272 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Of late God has been pleased to keep my soul hungry almost continually, so that I have been filled with a kind of pleasing pain. When I really enjoy God, I feel my desires of Him the more insatiable and my thirstings after holiness more unquenchable." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 273 : | DIVINE THIRST
"To look back upon the progress of the divine kingdom upon earth is to review revival periods which have come like refreshing showers upon dry and thirsty ground, making the desert to blossom as the rose, and bringing new eras of spiritual life and activit" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 274 : | DIVINE THIRST
"A soul may be in as thriving a state when thirsting, seeking and mourning after the Lord as when actually rejoicing in Him; as much in earnest when fighting in the valley as when singing upon the mount." |
| John Newton |
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| Quotation 275 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Furthermore, through the believer's spirit the Holy Spirit is able to impart God's life to thirsty and dying men. However, this filling of the Holy Spirit differs from the baptism with the Holy Spirit, because the latter is for the purpose of service whil" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 276 : | DIVINE THIRST
"There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for har" |
| Charles H. Brent |
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| Quotation 277 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as" |
| Elisabeth Elliot |
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| Quotation 278 : | DIVINE THIRST
"No man can quench his thirst with sand, or with water from the Dead Sea; so no man can find rest from his own character, however good, or from his own acts, however religious." |
| Horatius Bonar |
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| Quotation 279 : | DIVINE THIRST
"From time immemorial men have quenched their thirst with water without knowing anything about its chemical constituents. In like manner we do not need to be instructed in all the mysteries of doctrine, but we do need to receive the Living Water which Jesu" |
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| Quotation 280 : | DIVINE THIRST
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." |
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| Quotation 281 : | DIVINE THIRST
"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 282 : | DIVINE THIRST
"It now seemed that the deepest thirst within him was not adapted to the deepest nature of the world." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 283 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 284 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth." |
| Peter Abelard |
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| Quotation 285 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness." |
| Khalil Gibran |
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| Quotation 286 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly." |
| Antisthenes |
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| Quotation 287 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." |
| Mark Twain |
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| Quotation 288 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." |
| George Orwell |
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| Quotation 289 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." |
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| Quotation 290 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." |
| Elvis Presley |
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| Quotation 291 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true." |
| Swami Vivekananda |
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| Quotation 292 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow." |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Quotation 293 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth." |
| Swami Vivekananda |
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| Quotation 294 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Facts are many, but the truth is one." |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Quotation 295 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." |
| Robert H. Schuller |
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| Quotation 296 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 297 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." |
| Mahatma Gandhi |
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| Quotation 298 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Light is the symbol of truth." |
| James Russell Lowell |
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| Quotation 299 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses." |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
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| Quotation 300 : | DIVINE TRUTH
"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either." |
| Aesop |
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| Quotation 301 : | DIVINITY
"The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence." |
| Sue Monk Kidd |
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| Quotation 302 : | DIVINITY
"A man's character is his guardian divinity." |
| Heraclitus |
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| Quotation 303 : | DIVINITY
"Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own." |
| Alan Cohen |
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| Quotation 304 : | DIVINITY
"Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment." |
| Morihei Ueshiba |
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| Quotation 305 : | DIVINITY
"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand." |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Quotation 306 : | DIVINITY
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever." |
| Khalil Gibran |
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| Quotation 307 : | DIVINITY
"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased." |
| Alexander Hamilton |
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| Quotation 308 : | DIVINITY
"A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct." |
| Samuel Butler |
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| Quotation 309 : | DIVINITY
"A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you." |
| Criss Jami |
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| Quotation 310 : | DIVINITY
"Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters." |
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| Quotation 311 : | DIVINITY
"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." |
| Charles Lindbergh |
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| Quotation 312 : | DIVINITY
"It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts." |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 313 : | DIVINITY
"Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity." |
| Novalis |
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| Quotation 314 : | DIVINITY
"Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being." |
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| Quotation 315 : | DIVINITY
"If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature." |
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| Quotation 316 : | DIVINITY
"The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be." |
| John Templeton |
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| Quotation 317 : | DIVINITY
"It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity." |
| John Templeton |
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| Quotation 318 : | DIVINITY
"We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North." |
| Elizabeth Dole |
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| Quotation 319 : | DIVINITY
"You cannot escape Christ, do what You will. You reject His divinity, but, so doing, you have not evaded Him. If He is a man just like us, then obviously you must be a man like Him." |
| A.J. Gossip |
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| Quotation 320 : | DIVINITY
"There is no surer proof of Christ's divinity than that he is still so hated some two thousand years after his death." |
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| Quotation 321 : | DIVINITY
"Some men will spin out a long prayer telling God who and what he is, or they pray out a whole system of divinity. Some people preach, others exhort the people, till everybody wishes they would stop, and God wishes so, too, most undoubtedly." |
| Charles Finney |
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| Quotation 322 : | DIVINITY
"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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| Quotation 323 : | DIVINITY
"Treat all those who cross your path with kindness and compassion. This is an expression of divinity." |
| J.J. Goldwag |
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| Quotation 324 : | DIVINITY
"“The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'now' which is discernable between two thoughts.”" |
| David R. Hawkins |
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| Quotation 325 : | DIVINITY
"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature; external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or philosophy, by one, or more, or all of these – and be free. This is the whole of religion." |
| Swami Vivekananda |
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| Quotation 326 : | DIVINITY
"To err is human, to forgive, divine." |
| Alexander Pope |
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| Quotation 327 : | DIVINITY
"Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." |
| Ludwig van Beethoven |
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| Quotation 328 : | DIVINITY
"Om Namah Shivaya, meaning,
I honor the divinity that resides within me." |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 329 : | DIVINITY
"Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort." |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 330 : | DIVINITY
"I know you're tired but come, this is the way." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 331 : | DIVINITY
"The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'now' which is discernable between two thoughts." |
| David R. Hawkins |
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| Quotation 332 : | DIVINITY
"Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in the beauties of nature, in the goodness of those you love, in the testimony which you carry in your heart concerning things divine." |
| Gordon B. Hinckley |
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| Quotation 333 : | DIVINITY
"There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We o" |
| Charles H. Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 334 : | DIVINITY
"Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that." |
| Rumi |
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| Quotation 335 : | DIVINITY
"No. I believe in free will. I think we make our own decisions and carry out our own actions. And our actions have consequences. The world is what we make it. But I think sometime we can ask God to help us and He will. Sometime I think He looks down and sa" |
| Michael Grant |
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| Quotation 336 : | DIVINITY
"Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity" |
| Tony Samara |
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| Quotation 337 : | DIVINITY
"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man" |
| Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| Quotation 338 : | DIVINITY
"Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love." |
| Anonymous (Holy Bible: New Testament: The King James Version (Everyman's Library)) |
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| Quotation 339 : | DIVINITY
"Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason." |
| Iyanla Vanzant |
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| Quotation 340 : | DIVINITY
"Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth." |
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| Quotation 341 : | DIVINITY
"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if" |
| Karen Armstrong |
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| Quotation 342 : | DIVINITY
"Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind."" |
| Marianne Williamson |
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| Quotation 343 : | DIVINITY
"I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man a" |
| John Ruskin |
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| Quotation 344 : | DIVINITY
"Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind." |
| Howard W. Hunter |
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| Quotation 345 : | DIVINITY
"Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 346 : | DIVINITY
"You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms." |
| Terence McKenna |
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| Quotation 347 : | DIVINITY
"The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift." |
| Socrates |
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| Quotation 348 : | DIVINITY
"All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of a" |
| Swami Vivekananda |
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| Quotation 349 : | DIVINITY
"I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we" |
| Jostein Gaarder |
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| Quotation 350 : | DIVINITY
"You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was." |
| Anthon St. Maarten |
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| Quotation 351 : | DIVINITY
"A soul mate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communication and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. This kind of relationship is so important to the soul" |
| Thomas Moore |
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| Quotation 352 : | DIVINITY
"The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers within you. Love is absolutely vital for a human life. For love alone can awaken what is divine within you. In love, you gr" |
| John O'Donohue |
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| Quotation 353 : | DIVINITY
"Om is not just a sound or vibration. It is not just a symbol. It is the entire cosmos, whatever we can see, touch, hear and feel. Moreover, it is all that is within our perception and all that is beyond our perception. It is the core of our very existence" |
| Amit Ray |
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| Quotation 354 : | DIVINITY
"Be brave and be patient. Have faith in yourself; trust in the significance of your life and the purpose of your passion. You are strong enough to sit in the space between spaces and allow divine inspiration to shed some light. When you put positive energy" |
| Jillian Michaels |
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| Quotation 355 : | DIVINITY
"We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that lo" |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 356 : | DIVINITY
"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it." |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Quotation 357 : | DIVINITY
"You become more divine as you become more creative. All the religions of the world have said God is the creator. I don’t know whether he is the creator or not, but one thing I know: the more creative you become, the more godly you become. When your creati" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 358 : | DIVINITY
"Perform all thy actions with mind concentrated on the Divine, renouncing attachment and looking upon success and failure with an equal eye. Spirituality implies equanimity.
[Trans. Purohit Swami]" |
| Anonymous (The Bhagavad Gita) |
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| Quotation 359 : | DIVINITY
"There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." |
| William Shakespeare |
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| Quotation 360 : | DIVINITY
"Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever." |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 361 : | DIVINITY
"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine." |
| Socrates |
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| Quotation 362 : | RENUNCIATION
"Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight." |
| Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Quotation 363 : | RENUNCIATION
"Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally." |
| Ramakrishna |
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| Quotation 364 : | RENUNCIATION
"“To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.”" |
| Anthony Burgess |
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| Quotation 365 : | RENUNCIATION
"Dont be afraid. The only way to avoid that suffereing is to refuse love."" |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 366 : | RENUNCIATION
"...it is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct...." |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 367 : | RENUNCIATION
"It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct." |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| Quotation 368 : | RENUNCIATION
"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly." |
| Charles Dickens |
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| Quotation 369 : | RENUNCIATION
"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war." |
| Simone Weil |
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| Quotation 370 : | RENUNCIATION
"No one would take me just as I was, no one loved me; I shall love myself enough, I thought, to make up for this abandonment by everyone. Formerly, I had been quite satisfied with myself, but I had taken very little trouble to increase my self-knowledge; f" |
| Simone de Beauvoir |
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| Quotation 371 : | RENUNCIATION
"The natural desire of the human mind is to become special - to become special in the ways of the world, to have many degrees, to have much political power, to have money, wealth - to be special.
The mind is always ready to go on some ego trip. And if you" |
| Osho |
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| Quotation 372 : | RENUNCIATION
"Unless we have the courage to fight for a revival of wholesome reserve between man and man, we shall perish in an anarchy of human values… . Socially it means the renunciation of all place-hunting, a break with the cult of the “star,” an open eye both upw" |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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| Quotation 373 : | RENUNCIATION
"It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renu" |
| Pema Chödrön |
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| Quotation 374 : | RENUNCIATION
"No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that gives us the stregnth to confront the challenge before us.
Does that include suffering for love?
It includes everything. If there" |
| Italo Calvino |
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| Quotation 375 : | RENUNCIATION
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage." |
| Gertrude Stein |
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| Quotation 376 : | RENUNCIATION
"The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America." |
| Jim Ryun |
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| Quotation 377 : | RENUNCIATION
"In Japan itself there have all along been attempts by some to obliterate the article about renunciation of war from the Constitution and for this purpose they have taken every opportunity to make use of pressures from abroad." |
| Kenzaburo Oe |
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| Quotation 378 : | RENUNCIATION
"I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away." |
| Henry Fonda |
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| Quotation 379 : | RENUNCIATION
"Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others." |
| Beatrice Webb |
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| Quotation 380 : | RENUNCIATION
"If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians." |
| William Law |
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| Quotation 381 : | RENUNCIATION
"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path." |
| Paulo Coelho |
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| Quotation 382 : | RENUNCIATION
"God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some" |
| Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 383 : | RENUNCIATION
"His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community." |
| C.G. Jung |
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| Quotation 384 : | REVELATION
"Once a congregation sees Scripture as less than the final, complete, infallible authority for faith and practice, it has opened the doors to theological chaos. Anyone can claim to be speaking God's revelation - and almost anything can be passed off as div" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 385 : | REVELATION
"The conscience...is not infallible. Nor is it a source of revelation about right and wrong. Its role is not to teach you moral and ethical ideals, but to hold you accountable to the highest standards of right and wrong you know." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 386 : | REVELATION
"The sufficiency of Scripture means that we don't need any more special revelation. We don't need any more inspired, inerrant words. In the Bible God has given us, we have the perfect standard for judging all other knowledge. All other knowledge stands und" |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 387 : | REVELATION
"The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God's hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifi" |
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| Quotation 388 : | REVELATION
"Closet communion needs time for the revelation of God's presence. It is vain to say, "I have too much work to do to find time." You must find time or forfeit blessing. God knows how to save for you the time you sacredly keep for communion with Him." |
| A.T. Pierson |
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| Quotation 389 : | REVELATION
"After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation." |
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| Quotation 390 : | REVELATION
"If we retain only what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at the bar of enlightened common sense, then we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 391 : | REVELATION
"Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it. To me, it is one of the sweetest and most blessed truths in the whole of revelation, and those who are afraid of" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 392 : | REVELATION
"The revelation of Christ, for which our souls thirst, thrills us increasingly as we more clearly understand who He is in all His fullness and what He accomplished to reconcile us to Himself." |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 393 : | REVELATION
"The great truths of revelation are neither able to preach nor defend themselves. They must have soldier preachers who proclaim and defend them. They have never conquered as silent force, they have never won as a reserve corps." |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 394 : | REVELATION
"We settle things by a majority vote, and the psychological effect of doing that is to create the impression that the majority is probably right. Of course, on any fine issue the majority is sure to be wrong. Think of taking a majority vote on the best mus" |
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| Quotation 395 : | REVELATION
"What is Science but what the Natural World has said to natural men? What is Revelation but what the Spiritual World has said to Spiritual men?" |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 396 : | REVELATION
"The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance t" |
| Horatius Bonar |
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| Quotation 397 : | REVELATION
"It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation." |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 398 : | REVELATION
"Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object." |
| J.I. Packer |
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| Quotation 399 : | REVELATION
"The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know. The Bible could be trusted just as much as if God had taken the pen and writt" |
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| Quotation 400 : | REVELATION
"Inspiration is God superintending human authors so that using their own individual personalities, experiences, thought processes and vocabulary they composed and recorded without error His revelation in the original copies of Scripture." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 401 : | REVELATION
"A miracle is an extraordinary event wrought by God through human agency, an event that cannot be explained by natural forces. Miracles are always designed to authenticate the human instrument God has chosen to declare a specific revelation to those who wi" |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 402 : | REVELATION
"God's Word is a revelation - a revealing of truth to make the dark things light, bringing eternity into bright focus. Granted, there are things in Scripture that are hard to understand. But taken as a whole, the Bible is not a bewildering book." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 403 : | REVELATION
"Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even contrary to historical fact or objective divine revelation." |
| John MacArthur |
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| Quotation 404 : | REVELATION
"Revelation is the act of God whereby what once was concealed from men is now made known to them." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 405 : | REVELATION
"God did entrust the descendants of Abraham with the first revelation of Himself." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 406 : | REVELATION
"A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 407 : | REVELATION
"The "book of nature" must always be read in light of God's special revelation, the Bible." |
| Abraham Kuyper |
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| Quotation 408 : | REVELATION
"Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 409 : | RITUALS
"Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods." |
| G.K. Chesterton |
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| Quotation 410 : | RITUALS
"The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best" |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 411 : | RITUALS
"We are now the Temple of God! If the inanimate structure of the old covenant trembled and shook at God's presence, what is our response, we in whom this same glorious and holy God now lives? How can there be the slightest indifference or coldness or routi" |
| Sam Storms |
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| Quotation 412 : | RITUALS
"Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition." |
| Samuel Chadwick |
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| Quotation 413 : | RITUALS
"The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to come to a certain place; it is not to go through a certain ritual or liturgy; it is not even to bring certain gi" |
| William Barclay |
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| Quotation 414 : | RITUALS
"Worship is not a repetitious exercise of rituals and formulas. These create a veil that actually prevents us from enjoying the presence of the Lord. Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He" |
| Dave Hunt |
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| Quotation 415 : | RITUALS
"Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods, we can have the best possible liturgy, but we have not worshipped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit." |
| Richard J. Foster |
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| Quotation 416 : | SALVATION
"Courage is a kind of salvation." |
| Plato |
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| Quotation 417 : | SALVATION
"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." |
| James A. Baldwin |
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| Quotation 418 : | SALVATION
"I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it." |
| Billy Sunday |
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| Quotation 419 : | SALVATION
"A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation." |
| A.A. Hodge |
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| Quotation 420 : | SALVATION
"We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can" |
| A.C. Dixon |
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| Quotation 421 : | SALVATION
"In contradistinction to the Gospel of Christ, the gospel of Satan teaches salvation by works." |
| A.W. Pink |
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| Quotation 422 : | SALVATION
"Salvation apart from obedience is unknown in the sacred Scriptures... Apart from obedience there can be no salvation, for salvation without obedience is a self-contradictory impossibility." |
| A.W. Tozer |
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| Quotation 423 : | SALVATION
"Salvation is God's way of making us real people." |
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| Quotation 424 : | SALVATION
"Surely scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 425 : | SALVATION
"If thou sin, the word of God is thy adversary. It is the adversary of thy will till it become the author of thy salvation." |
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| Quotation 426 : | SALVATION
"To be assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is devotion. It is not presumption. It is God's promise." |
| Author: Augustine |
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| Quotation 427 : | SALVATION
"We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 428 : | SALVATION
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted." |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| Quotation 429 : | SALVATION
"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." |
| Buddha |
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| Quotation 430 : | SALVATION
"The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 431 : | SALVATION
"A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 432 : | SALVATION
"What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation - a toast to God!" |
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| Quotation 433 : | SALVATION
"Any church which puts in the place of justification by faith in Christ another method of salvation is a harlot church." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 434 : | SALVATION
"I learn from the Scriptures that repentance is just as necessary to salvation as faith is, and the faith that has not repentance going with it will have to be repented of." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 435 : | SALVATION
"You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 436 : | SALVATION
"Believing and confessing go together; and you cannot be be saved without you take them both. "With the mouth confession is made unto salvation." If you ever see the kingdom of heaven you have to take this way." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 437 : | SALVATION
"Faith, and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom, and fruitage" |
| E.M. Bounds |
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| Quotation 438 : | SALVATION
"How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!" |
| F.B. Meyer |
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| Quotation 439 : | SALVATION
"At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving." |
| Woodrow Wilson |
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| Quotation 440 : | SALVATION
"The one is addressed generally to all intelligent creatures, and is therefore accessible to all men; the other is addressed to a special class of sinners, to whom God would make known His salvation. The one has in view to meet and supply the natural need" |
| B.B. Warfield |
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| Quotation 441 : | SALVATION
"He may not be able to put together two sentences of the Queen's English, but if he can say that he has been born again, if he can say "once I was blind but now I see", he will do for The Salvation Army." |
| Catherine Booth |
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| Quotation 442 : | SALVATION
"From the Word of God I gather that damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvation is all of grace, from first to last. He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because God has chosen to save him." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 443 : | SALVATION
"I take it that the highest proof of Christ's power is not that He offers salvation, not that He bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject it, when you hate it, when you despise it, He has a power whereby he can change your mind, make you thin" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 444 : | SALVATION
"If anyone should ask me what I mean by a Calvinist, I should reply, "He is one who says, Salvation is of the Lord." I cannot find in Scripture any other doctrine than this. It is the essence of the Bible." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 445 : | SALVATION
"Let this be to you the mark of true Gospel preaching - where Christ is everything, and the creature is nothing; where it is salvation all of grace, through the work of the Holy Spirit applying to the soul the precious blood of Jesus." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 446 : | SALVATION
"There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in con" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 447 : | SALVATION
"We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but s" |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 448 : | SALVATION
"I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we" |
| Curtis Hutson |
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| Quotation 449 : | SALVATION
"I am glad when I see someone troubled over his sins, but we must be very careful in presenting the plan of salvation not to insist that a person have a certain degree of sorrow before he can be saved. That is not repentance, and such a requirement for sal" |
| Curtis Hutson |
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| Quotation 450 : | SALVATION
"Faith and repentance are the same; they are not two separate decisions. One cannot trust Christ as Saviour without repenting or changing his mind. The very fact that he trusts Christ for salvation shows that he has changed his mind regarding sin, salvatio" |
| Curtis Hutson |
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| Quotation 451 : | SALVATION
"The universal witness of the New Testament is that apostasy if persisted in not only damns but shows that salvation was never real in the first place. The New Testament reveals how close one may come to the kingdom - tasting, touching, perceiving, underst" |
| D.A. Carson |
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| Quotation 452 : | SALVATION
"The thief had nails through both hands, so that he could not work; and a nail through each foot, so that he could not run errands for the Lord; he could not lift a hand or a foot toward his salvation, and yet Christ offered him the gift of God; and he too" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 453 : | SALVATION
"Salvation is worth working for. It is worth a man's going round the world on his hands and knees, climbing its mountains, crossing its valleys, swimming its rivers, going through all manner of hardship in order to attain it. But we do not get it in that w" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 454 : | SALVATION
"I believe hundreds of Christian people are being deceived by Satan now on this point, that they have not got the assurance of salvation just because they are not willing to take God at His word." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 455 : | SALVATION
"What can botanists tell you of the lily of the valley? You must study this book for that. What can geologists tell you of the Rock of Ages, or mere astronomers about the Bright Morning Star? In those pages we find all knowledge unto salvation; here we rea" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 456 : | SALVATION
"A man who has not realized what the blood has done for him has not the token of salvation. It is told of Julian, the apostate, that while he was fighting he received an arrow in his side. He pulled it out, and, taking a handful of blood threw it into the" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 457 : | SALVATION
"The grace of God hath power to bring salvation to all men, and if a man is unsaved it is because he wants to work it out; he wants to receive salvation in some other way than God's way; but we are told that "he that climbeth up another way, the same is a" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 458 : | SALVATION
"A great many people want to bring their faith, their works, their good deeds to Him for salvation. Bring your sins, and He will bear them away into the wilderness of forgetfulness, and you will never see them again." |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 459 : | SALVATION
"Do you believe that He would send those men out to preach the gospel to every creature unless he wanted every creature to be saved? Do you believe He would tell them to preach it to people without giving people the power to accept it? Do you believe the G" |
| D.L. Moody |
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| Quotation 460 : | SALVATION
"Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation." |
| Charles Spurgeon |
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| Quotation 461 : | SONF OF TREE
"Who leaves the pine-tree, leaves his friend, Unnerves his strength, invites his end." |
| ~Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Quotation 462 : | SONF OF TREE
"There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it." |
| ~Minnie Aumonier |
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| Quotation 463 : | SONF OF TREE
"Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone." |
| ~Jens Jensen |
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| Quotation 464 : | SONF OF TREE
"Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart." |
| ~Candy Polgar |
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| Quotation 465 : | SONF OF TREE
"Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness." |
| ~Kahlil Gibran |
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| Quotation 466 : | SONF OF TREE
"The trees are whispering to me, reminding me of my roots, and my reach... shhhhhh... can you hear them? Selflessly sharing their subtle song." |
| ~Jeb Dickerson |
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| Quotation 467 : | SONF OF TREE
"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing "Embraceable You" in spats." |
| ~Woody Allen |
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| Quotation 468 : | SONF OF TREE
"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. Every hidden cell is thro" |
| ~John Muir |
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| Quotation 469 : | SONF OF TREE
"Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?" |
| ~Alice Walker |
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| Quotation 470 : | SONF OF TREE
"Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." |
| ~Rabindranath Tagore |
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| Quotation 471 : | SONF OF TREE
"Someone sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." |
| Warren Buffett |
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| Quotation 472 : | SONF OF TREE
"The trees are God's great alphabet:With them He writes in shining greenAcross the world His thoughts serene." |
| ~Leonora Speyer |
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| Quotation 473 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone." |
| Jesus Christ |
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| Quotation 474 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." |
| Michelangelo |
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| Quotation 475 : | SPEAKING STONE
"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thoug" |
| Chuck Palahniuk |
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| Quotation 476 : | SPEAKING STONE
"The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling." |
| Lucretius |
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| Quotation 477 : | SPEAKING STONE
"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone." |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Quotation 478 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven." |
| Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Quotation 479 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune." |
| James Weldon Johnson |
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| Quotation 480 : | SPEAKING STONE
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone." |
| Henry Rollins |
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| Quotation 481 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now." |
| P. T. Barnum |
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| Quotation 482 : | SPEAKING STONE
"The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break." |
| Andy Goldsworthy |
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| Quotation 483 : | SPEAKING STONE
"I'm so sorry,' Stone said. I don't know whether he was speaking to me, or Ghosh, or the universe. It wasn't enough, but it was about time." |
| Abraham Verghese |
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| Quotation 484 : | SPEAKING STONE
"Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone." |
| Jorge Luis Borges |
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