George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
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Related When you think about your relationship with Christ, it really just affects every aspect of your life... JEREMY LIN I talk to God every single day. And I say, 'God, my life is in your hands, and I trust you with ... TAMMY FAYE BAKKER Have I have played my part well in the comedy of life? If so, clap your hands and dismiss me from th... AUGUSTUS I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?" I nodded into his shirt. "Gives you an ide... JOHN GREEN What's different about the Gospel of Thomas is that, instead of focusing entirely on who Jesus i... ELAINE PAGELS Ah! If you have a self-will in your hearts, pray to God to uproot it. Have you self-love? Beseech th... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I can't help but think it's such a privilege. Not only being in that wonderful classic film, but liv... KAROLYN GRIMES My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me wou... ALBERT PUJOLS I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a... ELIZABETH GILBERT I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to se... SRI SARADA DEVI I tell you one thing / if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see... SRI SARADA DEVI Would those of you in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle ... JOHN LENNON You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God... BOB DYLAN I said, ?My God, man.? Every professional knew this was a possibility. LAWRENCE ANDREAS Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are ... KEVIN DEYOUNG Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I l... SONYA WALGER You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet,... CRISS JAMI My strong belief is that God created human beings and therefore he knows about every aspect of the h... BEN CARSON I mean, I don’t know how the world broke. And I don’t know if there’s a God who can help us fi... RACHEL COHN I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even ... POPE FRANCIS And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your a... BILLY GARDELL I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to kno... WILKIE COLLINS I always knew I would fall in love with you, but you were never supposed to love me back." "Wha... PRISCILLA GLENN How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister? NEIL GAIMAN I am not asking you to do something I haven't done, I have to Renew my mind daily. I am a living tes... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you... JANE GOODALL Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle... JOHN LENNON What are you really living for? It's crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify ... KEN SANDE It’s total bullshit,” he said. “The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he’s ... JOHN GREEN God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows TIMOTHY J. KELLER Dad?" Jesus asked. "Yes, son?" God asked. "Why do people get sick?" Jesus asked. "Whe... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle you... JOHN LENNON Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can'... WILL DAVIS JR. -And what would you do if you lost a child? -I would think I was going to die, Elena said. But ... DAVID BERGEN It is a daunting case, no doubt about it, ... I think Governor Ryan is lucky he's got the best trial... JAMES THOMPSON My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for se... DAVID OYELOWO Never complain of getting older, it's privilege and opportunity. comparing ourselves with those 'God... EJUMP SCHIFFLER Attitude is the most important word in the world. Period.
(Someone once asked me, "But what about Go... ROBERT P. MALONE Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at ano... TIMOTHY J. KELLER Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you JOHN LENNON You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I... ANGELA DAVIS When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'th... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that ... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER God laid this on my heart. He said 'find a way to help.' I knew I had a dream and I had to fulfill t... EARNESTINE REED He coached them from the bed and said, 'I don't care if we win a game this year; I want you to stay ... BRIGHAM YOUNG I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade... CONOR MCGREGOR To be sure, our mental processes often go wrong, so that we imagine God to have gone away. What shou... MEISTER ECKHART Kid. You just made the last mistake of your life.' 'God,' I said. 'I wish . JIM BUTCHER What I want from you,” he said, and Finley braced herself, “is your trust. Irrevocable and unsha... KADY CROSS Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what stree... BOBBY ORR But the more you make the choice to live above your feelings, to trust God instead of what you may f... TIM TEBOW I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from y... BRIAN MOLKO They're talking about a movie I don't want to hold to that because in this business you can ... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can ... MAYA ANGELOU I miss you,' she said. 'Every day, I miss you. And I wonder what you would have made of all this. Ma... SARAH J. MAAS I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up ... CASSANDRA CLARE People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, th... TINA TURNER Do you believe in fairies?...If you believe, clap your hands! J.M. BARRIE I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I don't b... BILLY CONNOLLY If you want success in life, then just learn how to walk like a turtle instead of flying. VIKRANT PARSAI I think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will... VICTORIA OSTEEN I guess what I want to learn is how to live in this world and enjoy its delights but also devote mys... ELIZABETH GILBERT She came up to me one day and said 'I think it would be good if we did a fundraiser,' ... I said, 'W... JENNIFER HAMPTON It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel d... HELEN KELLER I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just ... STEVE HARVEY If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like Go... ALAN COHEN God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe... CRAIG GROESCHEL I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain... ST. LUCIA If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of t... ISAAC ASIMOV If there was a God and if I was your God, I would forgive all of you. You know why? I wouldn't play ... EPHDAN You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten... ADAM DEVINE You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Ever... EDWARD RUTHERFURD I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the... RICK WARREN If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the... ARTHUR ASHE If I were to say, ''God, why me?'' about the bad things, then I should have said, ''God, why me?'' a... ARTHUR ASHE I made a deal with God. I said if you could give me that much money I promise I will use it for the ... MARTHA BABSON When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That... GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER the battle's in your hands now, but I would lay my armor down, if you said you'd rather love than fi... TAYLOR SWIFT Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you l... SHANNON L. ALDER I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, youn... PABLO CASALS If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. ALAN COHEN An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in ... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This isn't just about getting something out of a relationship with God, it's about what I need to gi... EUGENE FLOOD JR If I'd thought I would regret it," he said calmly, "I never would have made that oath. I knew what b... JULIE KAGAWA If you think God has promised this world will be a five-star hotel, you will be miserable as you liv... KEVIN DEYOUNG Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. T... DAN BROWN I just talk to God, you know? In my prayers, I just talk to God. JAMES MATHIS People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because oth... MICK JAGGER If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I just question whether what you did in Utah sort of says, 'Well, we can do this in all of America,'... JAY ROCKEFELLER I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone w... HARRY STYLES I follow and cultivate my own curiosity. I think curiosity is one of the top two or three human char... HANK GREEN We love you, dude, but I swear to God, if you put me in a position where I have to pick between you ... JAY CROWNOVER If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been a... ROMA DOWNEY What God said to Abraham was not 'Obey this law and I will bless you', but 'I will bless you; believ... JOHN R.W. STOTT I miss God. I miss the company of someone utterly loyal. I still don't think of God as my betrayer. ... JEANETTE WINTERSON Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said “Thou shalt ... BETSY CORNWELL I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you t... PELE We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev... C. JOYBELL C.
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ELISABETH SHUE He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN He hung everything that he had done during the residency on the walls and covered the walls floor-to... ELISABETH SUSSMAN Part of the challenge in this country is encouraging people to save enough for retirement, but an eq... ELISABETH GEHL Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself ... JENNIFER ELISABETH The best Mother's Day gift I ever got was just a full day with the kids where they did their mom... ELISABETH HASSELBECK Sadness, joy, wonder - all feelings come from a place of grounded strength that comes from trust in ... ELISABETH SHUE I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have.... ELISABETH SHUE I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play. ELISABETH SHUE She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is... ELISABETH SHUE Writing? Pshhh, this is art. NOELLE ELISABETH The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much ELISABETH FOLEY Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e... ELISABETH HASSELBECK You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea... JENNIFER ELISABETH I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m... ELISABETH HASSELBECK I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v... JENNIFER ELISABETH I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre... JENNIFER ELISABETH I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… JENNIFER ELISABETH I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis... JENNIFER ELISABETH I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop... JENNIFER ELISABETH Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of... JENNIFER ELISABETH I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ... JENNIFER ELISABETH You haunt my days and dreams. JENNIFER ELISABETH If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep. JENNIFER ELISABETH I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear. JENNIFER ELISABETH The Fall will always be yours and mine… JENNIFER ELISABETH Your personal truth is your gift to the world. JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin... JENNIFER ELISABETH Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti... JENNIFER ELISABETH We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm... JENNIFER ELISABETH Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti... JENNIFER ELISABETH I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels... JENNIFER ELISABETH It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its... JENNIFER ELISABETH I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ... JENNIFER ELISABETH He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning. JENNIFER ELISABETH Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha... JENNIFER ELISABETH I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca... JENNIFER ELISABETH In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ... JENNIFER ELISABETH How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w... JENNIFER ELISABETH Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi... ELISABETH SHUE I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula... ELISABETH SHUE Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ... ELISABETH LENK