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Great/inspirational quotes

"Our weakness is an empty cup – which God fills with His own strength."

– J.R. Miller (1840-1912)
 
"The first reaction to truth is hatred." - Tertullian
 
Paul is telling us in 1 Corinthians 11 that the husband’s submission to Christ’s headship is to arise from his realization of Christ’s obedience to God’s headship. And as he grows in appreciation of Christ’s obedience to God, the believing husband comes to understand what his own headship over his wife signifies. As Christ gave of Himself for the good of the husband, so the believing husband gives of himself for the good of the wife. Headship according as Paul presents it is not an invitation to self-glorification and indulgence but an opportunity to walk worthily of the evangel of Christ (cf. Philippians 1:27).

Dean Hough
The Headship of Christ
 
God reigns; that is the great first truth. He does not merely contemplate and oversee; He designs, directs, and decrees, and is never disconcerted nor disappointed. What to us are aberrations, defeats, disasters, are, to Him “declaring the end from the beginning…My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure” (Isaiah 46:10). They are but steps toward the fulfillment of His transcendent, beneficent purposes of universal good.

Horace "Go West, Young Man" Greeley (1811-1872)
Founding Editor of the New York Tribune
 
A man who dangles worms in the water is not necessarily a friend to the fish.

Malcolm X
 
"Until the entire world is redeemed, we all fall short."

– Jordan Peterson
 
What if God is actually fond of abnormal “normal” people like me…?

What if God’s plan to save the world is hidden beneath the radar, behind the scenes, and among the everyday lives of nobodies?...

I’m beginning to see how the secret ways and deepest mysteries of God and His kingdom are often revealed off the beaten path of organized religion and frequently missed by the too-smart. Sometimes it’s not the professor or preacher leading you to divine truth but the commonplace people God sticks right in front of your face. The Bible says something about jars of clay being fit vessels for carrying eternal treasure and God using foolish, weak, lowly, despised people in profound ways (see II Corinthians 4:7; I Corinthians 1:27-28).

Jim Palmer
Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God
 
"The dice of God are always loaded."

– Alan Burns (1884-1929)
 
Keith Martin said:
"The dice of God are always loaded."

– Alan Burns (1884-1929)
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I used to like to say that when you bring God into a situation you can throw all statistics out. There is a lot of comfort in knowing He and His plans are not subject to laws of averages and common statistics. :)
 
Everybody must be hungry and dissatisfied until they have finally “come home” in God; but there is the old, old problem of thinking there must be self-improvement.

So we each have to be “broken on the wheel” of vain self-effort, until the brokenness is complete enough for the darkness to be swallowed up in light. God will get us all there by one means or another, so I have to practice seeing through these frustrating appearances to God in hidden action!

Norman P. Grubb (1895-1993)
Notes from Norman
 
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people’s lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at creating around it an absolute uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
 
"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."

Norman Cousins (1915-1990)
 
Criticism sees the flesh in a brother. It tears down and condemns. It has self-superiority at its roots. Discernment sees Christ in a brother. It edifies. It combines loving appreciation of the present with hope for the future. If I do that, I am fulfilling the love commandment, so far as in me lies, and demonstrating the unity of the Spirit.

Norman P. Grubb (1895-1993)
The Liberating Secret
 
"Being bound by a creed, denomination members dare not search the Scriptures."

W.B. Screws (1884-1961)
 
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By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him, you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.
― John Newton, author of Amazing Grace
 
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