Commitment To God Quotes - Page 7

• We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Love, God, Faith

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (2007). “Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux”, Vintage

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• Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

  John Eudes

  Life, God, Faith

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• It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path.

  Katharine Drexel

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way......What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything....Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.

  Pedro Arrupe

  Love, God, Faith

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• Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Trust, God, Faith

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• Men are not revived because they sing; they sing because they are revived.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Life, God, Soul

  Louis Lallemant, Jean Pierre de Caussade, Claude De La Colombiere, Jean-Pierre Lafouge (2006). “For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality”, p.81, World Wisdom, Inc

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• When the Lord opens a door, walk through it. If He doesn’t, just trust.

  Kari Jobe

  Trust, God, Faith

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• This is how God works. He puts people in positions where they are desperate for his power, and then he shows his provision in ways that display his greatness

  David Platt

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  God, Faith, Christian

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Book by Walter Rauschenbusch, 1913.

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

  Girolamo Savonarola

  Love, God, Christian

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 378, 1895.

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• If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Love, God, Faith

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.133, Barbour Publishing

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• We don't ask any people to throw away any good they have got; we only ask them to come and get more. What if all the world should embrace this Gospel? They would then see eye to eye, and the blessings of God would be poured out upon the people, which is the desire of my whole soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  God, Faith, Christian

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• At the time of your examination(of sins) beware of the devil that ties your tongue.

  Josemaria Escriva

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve.

  Agnes of Rome

  Beautiful, God, Christian

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• As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.

  Charles de Foucauld

  God, Faith, Christian

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Without the grace of Jesus: a hopeless end. With the grace of Jesus: an endless hope.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Grace, Hopeless

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Apr 24, 2013

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• Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

  Langston Hughes

  God, Faith, Christian

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1921-1940”, p.156, University of Missouri Press

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  The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

  Billy Graham

  Life, Faith, Forgiveness

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Any faith that must be supported by the evidence of the senses is not real faith.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.68, Fig

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• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Commitment

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.238, Discovery House

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• The voice you believe will determine the future you experience

  Steven Furtick

  God, Faith, Christian

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.24, Multnomah

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