Lord Quotes - Page 40

• In this case, the neurotic resembles a human being who looks up to God, commends himself to His ways, and then religiously awaits how the Lord will guide him; he is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

  Alfred Adler

  Looks, Fiction, Way

  Alfred Adler (2002). “The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 1: Fundamentals of Individual Psychology and Psychotherapy: the Neurotic Character”, p.48, Alfred Adler Institute

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• But following the only true and stedfast Teacher, the Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, who did, through His transcendent love, become what we are, that He might bring us to be even what He is Himself.

  Irenaeus of Lyons

  Teacher, Jesus, Love Is

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• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

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• Jesus is the only Lord who, if you receive him, will fulfill you completely, and, if you fail him, will forgive you eternally.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Forgiving, Failing

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.172, Penguin

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• We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

  Dwight Edwards

  Christian, Jesus, Different

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• It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Busy

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• We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Humility, Way, Spirit

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• Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Lying, Love You

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• Will you be slack, brethren, and let the evil come upon us, when we forewarn you of the future events that are coming;... We are telling of what the prophets have said-of what the Lord has said to Joseph. Wake up now, wake up, O Israel, and lay up your grain and your stores. I tell you that there is trouble coming upon the world.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Israel, Evil, Events

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• The Lord can only teach an inquiring mind.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Mind, Inquiring, Teach

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• Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Children, Numbers, Matter

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• When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

  Frederic Mistral

  Doubt, World, Remember

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• Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Spiritual, Essence, Preparation

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• Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Reform, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.561, Best Books on

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• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• Lord deliver me from myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Self

  Sir Thomas Browne (1736). “Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici: Or, the Christian Religion, as Professed by a Physician; Freed from Priest-craft and the Jargon of Schools”, p.95

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• For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.

  William Ralph Inge

  Animal, Men, Self

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• The Lord grant we may all be tillers of the soil.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Literature, May, Soil

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Regret, Fall

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• Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Money, Men

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• Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money.

  George Orwell

  Money, Book, Writing

  George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

  Adelaide Anne Procter

  Adelaide, May, Pleasant

  Adelaide Anne Procter (1862). “A Chaplet of Verses”, p.106

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• Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

  Juvenal

  May, Lizards, Green

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• Lords are lordliest in their wine.

  John Milton

  Wine, Society, Aristocracy

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1418

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• The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest times; yes, the twelve disciples bound to their Lord in love, to do his work forever, that was a church, a Christian family.

  Lucy Larcom

  Christian, Mean, Ideas

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