Change God Quotes - Page 2

• Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Christian, Religious

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• No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fashion, Law, Design

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• The only lasting truth is change. God is change.

  Octavia Butler

  Truth Is, Lasting

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards.

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  "GOP candidates jostle for position, votes". Meet the Press Interview, www.nbcnews.com.

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• Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.

  Mark Driscoll

  Effort, Needs, Today

  Twitter post from Jan 11, 2014

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• Our conduct will never change God's character.

  Bill Hybels

  Character, Never Change

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• I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Prayer, Nice, Believe

  Interview with Jason Albert, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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• The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

  Alan Cohen

  Inspirational, Prayer, Eye

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

  William Nicholson

  Sleep, Needs, Flow

  "Fictional character: C.S Lewis (Jack)". "Shadowlands", 1993.

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