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Great/inspirational quotes

You think you’re bad or not good enough to be used by God? Just remember, that God is never hindered by our incompetence. On the contrary. His preference, by definition, goes out to those who are, by our standards, (totally) unacceptable. There are many examples of this, in the Bible.

Jacob was a deceiver. David had an affair. Paul was a murderer. Thomas was a doubter. Elijah was depressed and Moses stuttered. Sara was impatient. Noah got drunk. Peter was a hothead. Zachaeus was too short. Jonah did not want to go. Martha was over-concerned and Gideon was insecure. Rebekah was barren and Lazarus was even dead.

But God does not call the qualified. He qualifies the called!

André Piet
 
Christians must not altogether shun plays because there are sometimes coarseness and adulteries therein; for such reasons they would have to give up the Bible too!

Martin Luther (1483-1546)
 
Keith Martin said:
Christians must not altogether shun plays because there are sometimes coarseness and adulteries therein; for such reasons they would have to give up the Bible too!

Martin Luther (1483-1546)
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That made me laugh out loud.

I detest movies (modern recorded plays) that glorify and promote immoral acts. I watched a movie once called "The changeling" and while it was not a "warm fuzzy feel good" movie it was based on a true story, and showed real corruption in Los Angeles law enforcement rooted out and exposed, and also showed the murdering kidnapper HUNG!

Most Christians seem to prefer something more palatable to their own mortal sensibilities.....even if it is less in harmony with YHWH's morality.
 
Our God never has a headache. He is never worried as we worry when our plans go wrong, for His plans never do. In the working out of the divine plans, there are no contingencies. All history is pregnant with the guiding counsel of the all wise God. His purposes never fail or cave in. They never collapse. No disasters ever attend the undertakings of God. He is sovereign Lord. An experiment is an experiment because of its possible failure. God never fails, hence He makes no experiments.

Alan Burns (1884-1929)
Faith Fellowship Magazine
 
How many Christians are taken up with something short of Christ! They are occupied with their holiness instead of with the Holy One; they are occupied with the promises instead of with the Promiser; they are occupied with the blessing instead of with the Blesser. And yet having Him we have everything.

The promises of God “in Him are yea, and in Him Amen.” His holiness is mine. His blessing is mine. The full occupation with a heavenly object will alone make us heavenly without an effort. We have not to try to be this or that: We “beholding… are changed” (II Corinthians 3:18).

E. W. Bullinger (1837-1913)
The Christian’s Standing, Object, and Hope
 
God requires of us the same grace toward others that He has exhibited toward us. Of all laws, rules and ethical standards that have ever been given, there is only one that will endure. … The greatest of all is love.

Philo Thelos
Divine Sex: Liberating Sex from Religious Tradition
 
This NEVER fails to humble me; it's the November 22nd entry in the book which Chambers' wife produced to arrange the high points of his sermons. I thought I'd been hit up side the head the first time I read it:

"Beware of allowing yourself to think that the shallow concerns of life are not ordained of God; they are as much of God as the profound. It is not your devotion to God that makes you refuse to be shallow, but your wish to impress other people with the fact that you are not shallow, which is a sure sign that you are a spiritual prig. Be careful of the production of contempt in yourself, it always comes along this line, and causes you to go about as a walking rebuke to other people because they are more shallow than you are. Beware of posing as a profound person.

"To be shallow is not a sign of being wicked, nor is shallowness a sign that there are no deeps: the ocean has a shore. The shallow amenities of life, eating and drinking, walking and talking, are all ordained by God. These are the things in which Our Lord lived. He lived in them as the Son of God, and He said that "the disciple is not above his Master."

"Our safeguard is in the shallow things. We have to live the surface common-sense life in a common-sense way; when the deeper things come, God gives them to us apart from the shallow concerns. Never show the deeps to anyone but God. We are so abominably serious, so desperately interested in our own characters, that we refuse to behave like Christians in the shallow concerns of life.

"Determinedly take no one seriously but God, and the first person you find you have to leave severely alone as being the greatest fraud you have ever known, is yourself."

Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
My Utmost for His Highest
 
"Laziness to investigate new doctrines we excuse as loyalty to old ones."

Alan Burns
(1884-1929)
 
The final accomplishment of the purpose of God depends on Himself and not on man. The creature may fail, the Creator never fails; and no amount of blunders, mistakes failures or perversions of the creature shall disarrange or thwart the plans of the Creator. This is our hope; this is the hope of the world; this is the True Basis of Redemption. Man is God’s Own work; He has begun to create Him in His Own image and likeness; He will surely finish the work, for He will have a desire to the work of His Own hands (Job 14:15).

Arthur P. Adams (1847-1925)
The Purposes of God and the True Basis of Redemption
 
Truth dreads no scrutiny; shields herself behind no breastwork of established custom or of respectable authority, but proudly stands upon her own merits.

James Campbell
The History and Philosophy of Marriage (1860)
 
Yah has limited Himself, in many cases, to what He can do through us.
If we don’t step up to the plate, some of what He desires may never happen.

me
 
"He Who is the Origin of all will be its consummation."

William Mealand (1873-1957)
 
When I first came to California, the late Arno C. Gaebelein (1861-1945) wintered out here in Pasadena, and I went to visit him. He asked me how I liked California, and I replied, “I love it here, but it’s very interesting that if I teach the Book of Revelation, I can fill the church (even during midweek service), but if I begin teaching the Epistle to the Romans, I can practically empty the church. I find there are people who will run all the way across this area to find out from a speaker just how many hairs are in the horse’s tail in Revelation.”

He then made a statement to me that I shall never forget, “Dr. McGee, you’re going to find out in your ministry that there are a great many people more interested in Antichrist than they are in Christ."

J. Vernon McGee (1904-1988)
Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee
 
"Don’t let schooling interfere with your education."

– Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[This may be a repeat.]
 
“Socialism in all its forms is in practice a conspiracy of the greedy to exploit the productive.”

George Gilder

Knowledge and Power, 2013

“Pursuing opportunities beats problem-solving. Solving a problem only perpetuates the past instead of creating a new future.”

Winston Borden, 2018, paraphrasing George Gilder from 2013’s Knowledge and Power

[again, these may be repeats]
 
"Justification, the marvelous gift of God, is to be carefully distinguished from pardon."

Donald G. Hayter (1911-1988)
 
"It is not God’s object to fill the world with peace at the present time. It will help us in the terrible time we are going through to realize this. God wants to teach man that he cannot rule apart from Him. Man is made to rule and he is going to rule, but he is not able apart from the Deity."

A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)
 
Keith Martin said:
"It is not God’s object to fill the world with peace at the present time. It will help us in the terrible time we are going through to realize this. God wants to teach man that he cannot rule apart from Him. Man is made to rule and he is going to rule, but he is not able apart from the Deity."

A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)
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Triple Like
 
"All Scripture was written for us, and for our learning; but they are not all addressed to us, or written concerning us."

E.W. Bullinger (1837-1913)
 
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