Godly Quotes - Page 18

• The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Spiritual, Miraculous

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.128, South End Press

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• If God is in fact separated from the government, then we can never possibly have a godly government. There's no way for America to be good if she's not godly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Government, America, Scary

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• Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

  Huston Smith

  Spiritual, Makeup, Everyday

  Huston Smith (2009). “Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with...greater joy, peace, and happiness.

  Jimmy Carter

  Spiritual, Ties, Joy

  Jimmy Carter (2011). “Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith”, p.146, Three Rivers Press

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• There is...a tendency to think of the spiritual life as primarily introspective, divorced from the concerns of everyday life....Faith that does not translate into actions is no faith at all.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Thinking, Everyday

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• To keep God at the center of one's life requires frequent renewal of power through prayer.

  Georgia Harkness

  God, Prayer, Renewal

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• As I look back over fifty years of ministry, I recall innumerable tests, trials and times of crushing pain. But through it all, the Lord has proven faithful, loving, and totally true to all his promises.

  David Wilkerson

  Crush, Pain, Years

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• There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Eye, Revival, Amen

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• I lived in a project and...didn't have a good education. But...I'd listen to the preacher, who said that God would show me the way. Everything starts from that confidence.

  Evander Holyfield

  Spiritual, Way, Projects

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• Many things about man are not very godly: whenever a person excretes feces, how can he be a god then? But it is even worse regarding the other feces we call sin: man still surely wants to retain this, and not excrete it. Now however, I must believe it: a person can be God and still excrete feces. Thus I teach you, excrete your feces and become gods.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Men, Want

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• Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life....Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that's a sure sign that it's true.

  Anthony DeStefano

  Spiritual, Believe, Silly

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• I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.

  Rick Moody

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Believe

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• But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheist, Heart, Ignorance

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• Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

  George V

  Life, Advice, Chance

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• One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.

  Dennis Wholey

  Maturity, Knowing, Helping

  Dennis Wholey, Cleveland Amory (1986). “Are you happy?: some answers to the most important question in your life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I'm convinced that I'm a child of God. That's wonderful, exhilarating, liberating, full of promise. But the burden which goes along with that is, I'm convinced that everybody is a child of God. . . . I weep a lot. I thank God I laugh a lot, too. The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Laughing, Promise

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• I know that there is a God - the God within me that's always present and will protect me. I'm not afraid to climb any mountain, because I know that I'm protected. Even if I fall and die, I'm still protected. My faith is on that level.

  Halle Berry

  Fall, Mountain, Levels

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• Drink is in itself a good creature of God, and to be received with thankfulness, but the abuse of drink is from Satan, the wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.

  Increase Mather

  Wine, Abuse, Thankfulness

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• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison

  Fall, Angel, Men

  "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.

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• I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so modestly and so humbly—to possess. It is time to withdraw our 'respect' from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Real, Intelligent

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• I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms.

  Aaliyah

  Strong, Business, Weather

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

  Alice Walker

  Inspiring, God, Religious

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.

  John Ortberg

  People, Obeying God, Obeying

  John Ortberg (2001). “If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat”, p.124, Harper Collins

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• Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal sin. He it was who, through His atoning sacrifice, broke the bonds of death and with godly power rose triumphant from the tomb. He is our Redeemer, the Redeemer of all mankind. He is the Savior of the world. He is the Son of God, the Author of our salvation.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Son, Sacrifice, Rose

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• The call of repentance is for the righteous and unrighteous, the godly and ungodly alike. If the righteous had been the lights they were called to be, the nation would never have fallen as it did.

  Jonathan Cahn

  Light, Repentance, Righteous

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.222, Charisma Media

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