The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.
Tullian Tchividjian
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JERRY SEINFELD God's words first... obey God's law first before considering the laws of man.
MANNY PACQUIAO When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but t...
JASPER CARROTT To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution...
EDWIN LOUIS COLE My word will never be as strong as God's word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.
KENDRICK LAMAR God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.
BJORNSTJERNE BJORNSON I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't wan...
KELLY CLARKSON When you seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, Matthew 6:33, there becomes no need to...
PAUL HALBECK There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.
CHARLES SPURGEON All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of G...
YOLANDA ADAMS I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal ...
ALEX GREY The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
MARILYN MANSON Is God the Grand Chess Master? Is life a game of strategy that I should wonder what His next move wi...
RJ BLIZZARD God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of G...
JOHNNY CASH People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges ...
MONICA JOHNSON Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
YOLANDA ADAMS 'Ravi' means 'sun.' It's a Sanskrit original word. And 'Shankar' is anot...
RAVI SHANKAR As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same ex...
JAKOB BOHME Gospel music is never pessimistic, it's never 'oh my god, its all going down the tubes',...
BRIAN ENO At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be e...
DONALD WUERL Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.
AMY TAN Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserv...
WALTER LANG To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangero...
MICHIO KAKU Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. ...
GARY NORTH The word of God is complete, and those who don't preach the word in its fullness are false teach...
MONICA JOHNSON The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the ma...
ELAINE PAGELS According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our...
VANITY Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by G...
BILLY GRAHAM For words are the Word, and the Word is God.
VICTOR HUGO It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure w...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR God’s on your side; be on God’s side!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
MAHALIA JACKSON Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallibl...
RAY COMFORT Systematic theology - be careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems...
JIM ELLIOT “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was against God, and the Word was God. “ “With.�...
MALCOLM NOTHLING Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law...
GARY NORTH While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation...
KEN HAM The Bible is the word of God and his word is life itself.
PHIL BROWN I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
THOMAS MORE Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so d...
JOHN WYCLIFFE To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN The word 'God' usually signifies 'Lord', but every lord is not a God. It is the domi...
ISAAC NEWTON Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word...
MONICA JOHNSON The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or pr...
GRACE PALEY 'Design' is a word that's come to mean so much that it's also a word that has come t...
JONATHAN IVE The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it...
RICK WARREN When the Final Word speaks even the deafs hear
AYODAPO OYELANA Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stone...
JOHN WYCLIFFE In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God.
BIBLE A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word o...
OSCAR A. ROMERO I think I'm a good dad. It's hard. Ultimately, it's our kids that have the final word. S...
RIVERS CUOMO One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null wor...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The groves were God's first temples.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT What is preaching teaching and speaking the word of God if we dont live and act the word of God
TYREL D. LINING The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrend...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
PETER DE VRIES Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
JOHN BARTH Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's s...
DANIEL BERRIGAN The word of God is a certainty.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Thy word O God is the Truth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion ...
ISAAC NEWTON Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
JOHN FLAVEL Maggie thinks it's part of God's plan like God has people murdered and tortured for some inexplicabl...
RJ BLIZZARD Crime is a disease, and the word of God is a cure. Stick to the word.
DOUGLAS YEBOAH The word 'demand' is a tricky word when used by our gender. When used by men, it's part ...
ROBIN WRIGHT Time was God's first creation.
WALTER LANG God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absen...
THOMAS MERTON God is the creator of incredible beauty and all that He envisioned and desired to create, He also de...
MICHELLE CARBOTTE It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.'...
DAVID ICKE If Chief Justice Warren and his associates had known God's word and had desired to do the Lord...
JERRY FALWELL I don't use the word 'renaissance'. It's flawed because in Latin, it's tied to t...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society th...
JERRY FALWELL Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
JERRY FALWELL 'Magic' is a word that's too often misused in the record industry.
JIMMY IOVINE Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, ...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE The role of godly parents is to make sure that the hearts and minds of their children are saturated ...
ELIZABETH GEORGE Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in...
A. W. TOZER If I started preaching politics from the pulpit, our church would empty overnight. That's not wh...
ROBERT JEFFRESS The assurance of Heaven is never given to the person. And that's why at the core of the Christia...
RAVI ZACHARIAS The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of...
BRENNAN MANNING The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO The word of God is a divine doctrine.
LAILAH GIFTY, AKITA The Word of God is a holy light.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The word of God is good to hear.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA With God, the word ‘impossible’ is itself impossible.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.
GEORGE MACDONALD It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing...
R.C. SPROUL Women's liberty", "women's independence" are words on everybody's lips these days, but they stay on ...
SARAT CHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY We dare not change the Word of God for it is eternal, rather the Word of God changes us and makes us...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS When you believe the TRUTH, there's an incredible freedom. You're free to live without fear.
J.E.B. SPREDEMANN We do not judge the Word of God, but rather the Word of God judges us.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Justification is God's declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God's ey...
KEVIN DEYOUNG Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Order is heaven's first law.
ALEXANDER POPE There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth wit...
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