Godly Quotes - Page 11

• How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Lonely, Loneliness

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• ...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Regret, Men

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• Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.

  John Bunyan

  Christian, Flower, Fall

  John Bunyan (1851). “Christian Behaviour: A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity, the Fear of God, and an Exhortation to Unity and Peace to which is Added a Caution Against Sin”, p.75

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• The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Teaching, Law, Admitting

  Leo Tolstoy (1987). “A Confession and Other Religious Writings”, p.273, Penguin UK

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• Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Motivational, God, Faith

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• Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

  James Weldon Johnson

  God, Men, Hands

  "The Prodigal Son" l. 2 (1927)

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• All must admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ results in the purest patriotism, in the most scrupulous fidelity to public trust, and in the best type of citizenship.

  Grover Cleveland

  Teaching, Patriotic, Presidential

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

  John Atkinson Grimshaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• To love is to be vulnerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Romance, Vulnerable

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• A man with God is always in the majority.

  John Knox

  God, Men, Religion

  Quoted in Inscription on Reformation Monument, Geneva, Switzerland

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• America today is running on the momentum of a godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Running, 4th Of July, America

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• God does not always call us to go back physically to a place we have been. But if for example we have a difficult time submitting to a boss with a certain personality God may call us to continue working with someone who has the same personality until we master the situation in a godly way. God does not want us to be on the run He wants us to confront our fears and frustrations in order to find peace in Him.

  Joyce Meyer

  Running, Frustration, Order

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• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Christian, Jesus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

  John Piper

  Book, Levels, Lines

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• I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Hiding, Easy

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.94, BookBaby

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• What good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?

  Jim Elliot

  Heart, Greek, Christ

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• [T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Care, May

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• God's Word is your owner's manual for life. It contains principles for health, finance, marriage, other relationships, business, and much more.

  Rick Warren

  God, Principles, Finance

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, People, Faithful

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• Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Following Christ, Christianity, Discipleship

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.17, SCM Press

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• I meditate and pray all the time. The faith and respect that I have in the power of God in my life is what I've used to keep myself grounded, and it has allowed me to move away from the storms that were in my life.

  Halle Berry

  Moving, Storm, Praying

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• What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.

  Abraham Verghese

  Country, Fighting, Medicine

  Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.115, Random House India

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• I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

  Franklin Graham

  Country, Prayer, Believe

  "Inside The Nationwide Tour To Support 'Godly Leaders'". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• The godly seed fares well: the wicked's is accurst.

  Theocritus

  Wicked, Wells, Seeds

  theocritus “idylls, or, early Greek love lyrics”, Lulu.com

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• When Jesus Christ asked little children to come to him, he didn't say only rich children, or White children, or children with two-parent families, or children who didn't have a mental or physical handicap. He said, Let all children come unto me.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Jesus, Children, Two

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