In the beginning, God ...
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Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.
- Mark Twain
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires;
but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force.
Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love;
and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better. - André Gide
Be on guard. Stand true to what you believe. Be courageous. Be strong.
And everything you do must be done with love. - The Bible (1 Corinthians 16:13-14, NLT)
Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him;
and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you. - C.S. Lewis
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.
The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C.S. Lewis
Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason once accepted, despite your changing moods.
- C.S. Lewis
Faith isn't faith until it's all you're holding on to.
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary.
For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.
Give your problems to God ... He's up all night anyway.
God bless everyone. No exceptions.
God doesn't need an answering machine ... He takes each call personally.
God enters by a private door into every individual. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is not proud ... He will have us even though we have shown
that we prefer everything else to Him. - C.S. Lewis
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. - Saint Augustine
God loves you just the way you are. However, He does not want you to stay the way you are.
God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains:
it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. - C.S. Lewis
God won't stop working on me until He can stand to spend eternity with me. - Rolland Baker
God's requirements are met by God's enablings.
Going to church does not make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.
I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe,
but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured.
In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here;
and this idea of a creating hand refers to God. - Jean-Paul Sartre
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love. - Henry Ward Beecher
I think computer viruses should count as life.
It says something about human nature that the only form of life
we have created so far is purely destructive.
We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking
If Darwin's theory of evolution were correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.
- Larry Wright
If you're not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. - Martin Luther
It is hard to stumble when you're on your knees.
It is not the greatness of my faith that moves mountains but my faith in the greatness of God.
It is only when men worship that they begin to grow. - Calvin Coolidge
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects.
The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look,
but the more you magnify God-made objects, the more precise and intricate they appear.
- Luther Sutherland
Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain,
so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe. - Nachman of Bratslav
Keep away from evil desires because they fight against your very souls.
- The Bible (1 Peter 2:11b, NLT)
King Saul thought Goliath was too big to fight. David thought he was too big to miss.
Let your faith move mountains rather than letting mountains move your faith.
Many books can inform but only the Bible can transform.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance.
It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. - C.S. Lewis
Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity which stirs within us. - Francis Bacon
Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
- Francis Cardinal Spellman
Regarding the debate about faith and works:
it's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important. - C.S. Lewis
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
That thing about "Love Thy Neighbor" ... I mean it. - God
The atheist has no hope. - J. F. Clarke
The coin of God's realm is love.
The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.
The secret of prayer is secret prayer.
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred
an all-embracing love for all religions. - G. K. Chesterton
There will be two kinds of people in the end:
those that will say to God 'Thy will be done' and
those to whom God will say 'Thy will be done.'
- C.S. Lewis
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
- G. K. Chesterton
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
- Thomas Edison
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet
You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources;
you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources.
You can enter tomorrow rejoicing that God's commitment to His purpose in you is absolute.
And you can live every day with confidence,
assured of the inevitability of His life triumphing in you. - Jack Hayford
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