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- Nov 07, 2020
God Quotes
On faith, prayer and finding strength each day.
These devotional quotes speak to prayer, trust and the comfort of believing God supplies the strength needed for hard seasons rather than a life free of pain altogether. For more, see our Faith quotes.
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- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I insist that God has always had the power to intervene directly in nature to create new forms, I am willing to be per-suaded that He chose not to do so and instead employed secondary natural causes like random mutation and natural selection.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.
- Gratitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see in the Bible, especially in the book of Psalms, which is a book of gratitude for the created world, is a recognition that all good things on Earth are God's, every good gift is from above. They are good if we recognize where they came from and if we treat them the way the Designer intended them to be treated.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
- Prayer
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020