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Great/inspirational quotes

"Under no circumstances should we corrupt God’s definitions by appealing to uninspired usages."

A.E. Knoch
Studies in Genesis
 
“Forgets a woman her unweaned child, not to have compassion on the son of her belly? Even these a woman is forgetting, yet I will not forget you,” says Jehovah, “Behold, on my palms I tattoo your walls, and you are in front of me continually.” (spoken through Isaiah 49:15-16 [CVOT])
 
"Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you."

Shannon L. Alder
 
Keith Martin said:
"Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you."

Shannon L. Alder
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Lol That is some excellent advise there! :D:p
 
There are doubtless many reasons for the degeneration of Christianity into “churchiness,” and the narrowing of the Gospel for all mankind into a set of approved beliefs. But the chief cause must be the worship of an inadequate god, a cramped and regulated god who is “a good churchman,” according to the formulas of the worshipper.

J. B. Phillips (1906-1982)
For This Day (1975)
 
"I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that it's not the answer."

Jim Carrey
 
"I never liked the word repent. For me it conjured up images of judgment, condemnation, and fear. For years it was troubling to me that Jesus so often used this word, because it smacked of everything about religion that repulsed me. But then I came to understand the true meaning of the word and its significance for my journey with God. The word repent, from the Greek word metanoia, actually means a change of mind – a radical revision and transformation of our whole mental process… receiving a new mind."

Jim Palmer
Wide Open Spaces (2007)
 
Keith Martin said:
"I never liked the word repent. For me it conjured up images of judgment, condemnation, and fear. For years it was troubling to me that Jesus so often used this word, because it smacked of everything about religion that repulsed me. But then I came to understand the true meaning of the word and its significance for my journey with God. The word repent, from the Greek word metanoia, actually means a change of mind – a radical revision and transformation of our whole mental process… receiving a new mind."

Jim Palmer
Wide Open Spaces (2007)
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Yup
For most people it has become simply an apology.
Which isn’t true repentance.
 
Stephen, before going down under a hail of stones said, “The Most High dwelleth not in Temples made with hands” (Acts 7:48). Of course, the world hasn’t heeded this at all – the Christian world. They still go on making temples and houses for God!

Why? Well, I think it’s a little bit more convenient if they can put God somewhere off in a house where He can stay alone and people can come to Him, oh once a year at Easter, or maybe more often at Christmas. But, He’s not wanted in the home, that’s the whole thing. The social life, He isn't wanted there, or in business, He has no place there. So a building is made for Him, and it is called “The House of God,” and they just hope He stays there.

Oscar M. Baker (1898-1987)
The Habitation of God (1983)
 
"Instead of believing the report of what God has said, men are taught today to believe in what they can do."

E.W. Bullinger (1837-1913)
 
If faith has the honesty to recognize the facts of life, it also has the vision to look through them. Look at trouble, and however small it may be, it becomes a thing of terror. Look through it, however great and it becomes a trifle. Faith looks through and sees patience beyond. Faith examines experience and through it sees the dawning of expectation and through expectation it gazes on the smile of God.

Alan Burns (1884-1929)
Faith Fellowship
 
"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
 
In a little school a lad was given an assignment by his teacher. He grappled with the task of finding the solution. After hours of efforts in which the answer continued to elude his eager search, he gave up the attempt. The sum was beyond his ability to work it out, and so defeated, with his sponge he just removed the problem from his slate.

When our theology involves the possibility of man becoming an unanswerable riddle to Deity, and when annihilation suggests that God’s final action of human problems is their destruction, then we have lowered the thought of the omniscience of God to somewhat akin to a boyish baffled brain. The difference between the two is only of degree.

Alan Burns (1884-1929)
Faith Fellowship Magazine
 
“To be a good liar, you must have a great memory.”

some guy’s grandmother
 
Centuries of old Puritan and Victorian practices have stained the intention of our Creator, marking the body as the enemy of the spiritual life. But no such thing is true. Our body was elaborately fashioned by God, created as the dwelling place where we reside with Him.

Contrary to common religious traditions, we are not to deny or despise the body. While speaking to husbands and wives, Paul matter-of-factly states, “no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it” (Ephesians 5:29). It must have brought God deep sadness to cover the beauty of Adam and Eve’s bodies with animal skins after they sinned. His glory is dimmed when we loathe or ignore the magnificence of the human body.

Bill Ewing
Rest Assured (2003)
 
This life is not about each of us “getting it right.”

– Mike Owens
 
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