No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him. We need more of this 'being asleep' in the will of God.
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T We can say that Faustus makes a choice, and that he is responsible for his choice, but there is in t... SYLVAN BARNET It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON It was no accident that one of the first things God asked of Adam was for him to name the animals he... JOHN KRAMER Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Fria... WILLIAM LAW He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to... BLAISE PASCAL If you really watch 'The Voice' and follow Adam, he's very ADD. He's kind of one pla... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his... JOHN THE APOSTLE Don't judge other people. For example, if you want God's anointing to be on you for parentin... 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DESMOND TUTU If homosexuality was the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce ANITA BRYANT When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi... ANN VOSKAMP We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the C... MICHAEL O'BRIEN God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and thi... JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD God will forgive me; that's his business. HEINRICH HEINE First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn'... POPE FRANCIS Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary an... JOHN DONNE God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's ... EDWARD MCKENDREE BOUNDS God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous ... 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BILLY GRAHAM At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to emp... JOHN CALVIN Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will. POPE PAUL VI A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the... C. S. LEWIS You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I ma... JAMES WAN If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa... SAMUEL BUTLER And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, a... JOHN LENNON Fixate your love on Him, be obedient to God's word, and don't seek the glory of this world. ... MONICA JOHNSON Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God... THOMAS MERTON Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is ... JOHN TYLER He was without any comforts of God — no feeling that God loved him — no feeling that God pi... ROBERT MURRAY MCCHEYNE God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record. FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Before God opens His windows in heaven for you, you will need to dedicate your business, your tithes... SUNDAY ADELAJA Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can c... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ Throughout the Old Testament, God warns his chosen people about the perils of assimilation, shiksapp... DAVID HARSANYI there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] ... KHALED HOSSEINI We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman'... JOHN WYCLIFFE But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have
need, and shutteth up his bowels of co... BIBLE God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a ... JOHN HAGGAI At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalt... LEWIS B. SMEDES Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, becaus... P. J. O'ROURKE
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His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to sacrifice that springs from a loving heart rather than the desire for spiritual d... ELISABETH ELLIOT Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace i... ELISABETH ELLIOT If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to... ELISABETH ELLIOT To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And t... ELISABETH ELLIOT Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lie... ELISABETH ELLIOT I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Whoever said "Marriage is a 50-50 proposition" laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any ot... AUSTIN ELLIOT There's no way he's supposed to even catch the ball, dribble it, spin and shoot a shot and make a sh... ELLIOT WASHINGTON This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them. ELISABETH ELLIOT I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are... JANE ELLIOT Age is how we determine how valuable you are. JANE ELLIOT I get the same results with the exercise in Berlin or in the Netherlands that I do in the U.S. or Au... JANE ELLIOT I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vici... JANE ELLIOT We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put i... JANE ELLIOT No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the ... JANE ELLIOT My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode. JANE ELLIOT "The most meanest and depraved of men come out on top, and women flock to these men.Their evil acts ... ELLIOT RODGER Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age ELLIOT PAUL It's not just one crop in one region. It's multiple crops in most of the state that have been affect... DAVE ELLIOT It was like hitting a brick wall. We're still unsure of what to do. ELLIOT SECRIST We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of whit... JANE ELLIOT The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation WALTER ELLIOT