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God is not a God of the emotions but the God of truth.


Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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GEORGE WHITEFIELD A major theme for Bonhoeffer was that every Christian must be "fully human" by bringing God into his...
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WILLIAM TEMPLE All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
PAT BUCKLEY The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning...
FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER If you have a religion it must be cosmic.
C.S. LEWIS What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness a...
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PETER KREEFT The Holy Scripture is the truth of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Both philosophy's quest and religion's claim is ultimate truth, but neither offers real hope to huma...
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BRIAN CLEVINGER Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.
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AIMEE CARTER The God excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
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"Gently, my lady. It is a ...
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GIRLENE SOARES Your presence fills every space of a heart that seeks to find; Your love is here to save us and Your...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and th...
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C.S. LEWIS Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.
R.C. SPROUL God is more interested in declaring than explaining.
MATT CHANDLER Begin with the will you know before looking for the will you don’t know.
PAUL SILWAY The purpose of life is to fulfill the will of God.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Anything that will enable us to express greater life, greater happiness, greater power--so long as i...
ERNEST HOLMES Helping people is the action step that unlocks knowledge of the will of the Lord. The circumstances ...
LLOYD JOHN OGILVIE If you think money is an obstacle, that shows that you still lack wisdom.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY God wants to change the world through us Christians.
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PST ADELAJA SUNDAY It’s only wisdom that enables a person to keep and maintain a position of success.
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NORM TOMLINSON Conscience: "con"-"science"; that which science cannot explain.
LORIANN ZEMANOVICH That That a man is beloved of God, should melt him all into esteem and holy veneration. It should ma...
THOMAS TRAHERNE God wants to win you not by exercising His power, but His love.
STEVEN CHOPADE You are a child of God and, therefore, deserve to allow the light of God’s love to come streaming ...
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PAUL SILWAY The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

Fire of love, crazy over what You have...
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VANCE HAVNER For God is good - or rather, of all goodness He is the Fountainhead.
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KATIE GANSHERT I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help m...
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DAVID MATHIS There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they expl...
OSWALD CHAMBERS If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The task is not to turn the world upside down but in a given place to do what, from the perspecive o...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Bless them that persecute you.' If our enemy cannot put up with us any longer and takes to cursing u...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by lovin...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before a...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spir...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The way to misuse our possessions is to use them as an insurance against the morrow. Anxiety is alwa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following cen...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We shall be judged according to our works – this is why we are exhorted to do good works. The Bibl...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It is only because he became like us that we can become like him.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER [God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehens...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unn...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the sa...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves. We must learn to regard pe...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; it...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the ...
DIETRECH BONHOEFFER Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICH Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.
MARLENE DIETRICH America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my hear...
MARLENE DIETRICH The most dangerous thing for a branded product is low interest.
DIETRICH MATESCHITZ It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
MARLENE DIETRICH I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can...
MARLENE DIETRICH Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like ...
MARLENE DIETRICH A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an ...
MARLENE DIETRICH There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you we...
MARLENE DIETRICH Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
MARLENE DIETRICH Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
MARLENE DIETRICH Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us,...
MARLENE DIETRICH Sleeping alone, except under doctor's orders, does much harm. Children will tell you how lonely it i...
MARLENE DIETRICH A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the...
MARLENE DIETRICH The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
MARLENE DIETRICH Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
MARLENE DIETRICH Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub w...
MARLENE DIETRICH Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with mu...
MARLENE DIETRICH In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICH The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with be...
MARLENE DIETRICH Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw thems...
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