God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.
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Related Dad?" Jesus asked. "Yes, son?" God replied. "Do we look like man or does he look like us?"... ANTHONY T. HINCKS And do these objectors mean to say that, because God has redeemed us from the curse of the law, ther... HORATIUS BONAR Why do people blame God for the bad things that happen or ask "where was God when you needed Him"? W... NORM TOMLINSON From the crude cry which we have so often heard during the war years: "If there is a God, why doesn'... J. B. PHILLIPS He wants all of us to come together and help each other more than we have been. I've never seen anyt... JOE HARRIS What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. ... JOHN PIPER In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, b... SONIA JOHNSON To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and fl... TIMOTHY J. KELLER All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say s... AIDAN CHAMBERS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capabili... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God guides us from within. He does nothing more than that. There is no charm in God shaping us like ... VINOBA BHAVE To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that... KARL BARTH ...Our Lord Jesus Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what He di... ARTHUR W. PINK To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD Feast of James the Apostle It is not in our life that God's help and presence must still be proved... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invent... C.S. LEWIS The reason to forgive ourselves is not because we feel like it or because we want to see ourselves a... SUE AUGUSTINE Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD It's impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has no... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this b... ROB BELL The more we aware we become of God in us, the more overwhelmed we are with a sense of total fulfilme... FRANçOIS DU TOIT These are people who never, ever would have imagined themselves being homeless. Ever. If you really ... LINDA MURPHY A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly re... G. K. CHESTERTON There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual ... C.S. LEWIS It looks like sunset, but it is only midday. This is a strong sign from God to show us that he is th... THADEE NDARUVUKANYE I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think... C. JOYBELL C. The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by ... C.S. LEWIS God has made us as pawns... when he is bored of playing with us on the playground he just remove us.... DEYTH BANGER I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe... MALCOLM BOYD Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to ch... JOYCE MEYER God has created the trees as the sources of food and shelter for others. He has so sensibly not give... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that w... CRISS JAMI For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we t... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and ... JOHN PIPER If He (God) is invisible, how does He know what He looks like?' "The Torah tells us He has made... NOAH GORDON I must not expect everyone to act or think like I do as God has created each of us differently. NORHAFSAH HAMID Radical obedience to Christ is not easy... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosper... DAVID PLATT We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other... BILLY GRAHAM We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey.... MARY E. DEMUTH A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and ... JAKOB BOHME We have all been guilty of complaining, but God does not look at it as lightly as we may think. Comp... MONICA JOHNSON I have had friends who I decided were not good friends, were people who brought more trouble than ha... DAVE EGGERS Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph going in and... AUDREY MEADOWS Many people inside the church think God cares only that we obey. In fact, many believe that it is ev... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r... PAULO COELHO To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest f... TIMOTHY J. KELLER We are just so thankful that Christ does not measure us by what we do. God is not measuring us by th... BEN ZOBRIST He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m... SAMUEL BUTLER He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m... SAMUEL BUTLER [2 Corinthians 1:21-22] says that God has anointed us, has sealed us, and has given us the pledge, t... WITNESS LEE ACW, God is calling even more, more so than ever before because you live in a time when Jesus is abo... CYNTHIA PRATT 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one ... A.W. TOZER Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio... MARTIN LUTHER Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often kee... J.I. PACKER Human race should learn to value the dignity of every person. It looks like people think they are su... ALON CALINAO DY Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bis... ST. AUGUSTINE The Spirit of God makes us more righteous than the law. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL We are certainly more connected than ever before, but the challenge that faces us now is to use thos... SHAIKH AHMED Good religion teaches us about a good God and encourages us to be like Him to the people of the worl... HAROLD J. DUARTE-BERNHARDT The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... HENRI NOUWEN What sort of a god are you, my Lord? Your punishments seem barbaric to me. Either that or we are mor... THEGUYWITHTHEBROKENPROMISE Few things can frustrate us more than trying to make a person someone he or she isn't; we feel c... MELODY BEATTIE God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish... PATIENCE JOHNSON I think it takes more than three years. We need to string together a decade or two to match somethin... TOM BRADY You have the fruit of the spirit in you, because when Christ comes in you everything he is and has c... JOYCE MEYER We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to g... JOEL OSTEEN God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we liv... CRISS JAMI He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us... KENNETH L. PIKE It's difficult to discern the blessing in the midst of brokenness. Certain circumstances in life hur... DR. CHARLES STANLEY Feast of Matthias the Apostle There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there ... GEORGE MACDONALD There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin firs... GEORGE MACDONALD Getting picked to finish fourth or fifth in the ACC was like a slap in the face to us. That was base... DANIEL EWING To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down o... GERONIMO It is always better to like someone, but not good to be like someone even if he or she looks like th... ANUJ SOMANY Everything is interim. Everything is a path or a preparation for the next thing, and we never know w... SHAUNA NIEQUIST Fans always ask, 'What did the bedroom look like?' All they ever saw was Alice or Ralph goin... AUDREY MEADOWS More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they thi... BRIAN LAMB Most people think there is a God, but God is not what most people think. RAIN BOJANGLES How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually... STEVE SIMON . . .most people who are angry with God are angry with him for being God. They're not angry because ... PAUL DAVID TRIPP For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, p... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must... JERRY BRIDGES We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we di... DIANE ACKERMAN Most people don't get an opportunity to try and pay back those who led you to Christ, but God has al... GEORGE FRANKLIN A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or becaus... WILLIAM LAW Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot clai... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The movement in our relationship to God is always from God to us. Always. We can't, through our piet... NADIA BOLZ-WEBER What I thought as a young adult is you act like you have it together whether or not you do because t... BETH MOORE If we cannot find our way to a time when most of us are willing to admit that, at the very least, we... SAM HARRIS The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do someth... MOTHER TERESA
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P. 237 ALICE WALKER Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. ALICE WALKER The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love. ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing. ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people... ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo... ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde... ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER