Godly Quotes - Page 2

• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Time, July

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp

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• There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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• All that God requires of us is an opportunity to show what He can do.

  A. B. Simpson

  God, Opportunity, Shows

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• Wives don't need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider - God!!

  Nick Vujicic

  Men, Wife, Needs

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• God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Pain, Real, World

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• God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Hands, Want

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• There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

  Charles Morgan

  Love, Men, Magic

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• I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker.

  Voltaire

  God, Spiritual, Imagine

  Attributed to Voltaire in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science: An Anthology" (p. 65), 1982.

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• God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

  Jean Paul

  God, Soul, Depth

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• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

  Hosea Ballou

  Life, Practice, Argument

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• If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Messiah, Complexes

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.169, Harper Collins

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• When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

  Jon Krakauer

  Love, Forgiveness, Light

  "Fictional character: Ron Franz". "Into the Wild", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, God, People

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• You have to be different to make a difference. You cannot change anything by adding more of the same. The greatest spiritual impact is made upon people by someone who is different from them. Others must see someone like Christ in us –- not someone like the rest of the world –- if we are to have any godly influence on them.

  Jim Berg

  Spiritual, Differences, Impact

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• Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.

  Joshua Harris

  Beautiful, Men, Priorities

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.118, Multnomah

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• A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Wisdom, Atheist

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Patience is heavenly, obedience is noble, forgiveness is merciful, and exaltation is godly; and he that holds out faithful to the end shall in no wise lose his reward.  A good man will endure all things to honor Christ, and even dispose of the whole world, and all in it, to save his soul.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Wise, Men, Soul

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• I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Address to sanitation workers, Memphis, Tenn., 3 Apr. 1968.

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• God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Doe, God Love, Valuable

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  One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian Inspirational, Christianity, Obedience

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• I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspiration, Insperational

  "God's Little Devotional Book for Girls". Book by W. B Freeman, p. 205, 2004.

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• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Christian Inspirational, Heaven

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• when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Joy, Steps

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Light, Essence

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  Letter 107, 403 AD,

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