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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.


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GRAHAM GREENE Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Id rather be told am beautiful than get a poem saying I look like sunshine
KIMBERLY SHILENJE Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to...
DONALD MILLER I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love...
PETAR DUNOV If in our hearts we really don’t believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by t...
BRENNAN MANNING The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good be...
C.S. LEWIS Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. Though we are imperfect, He loves us perfectly. T...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my spec...
BARBRA STREISAND Love as a flower loves the morning sun.
Love with kindness, expect no return.
DEBASISH MRIDHA God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God lov...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
TAMARA ECCLESTONE From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God an...
ANONYMOUS I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously towa...
RADHANATH SWAMI Our message is of truth, love and faith in a peaceful, respectful manner. We are created by God in G...
JENNIFER HALL 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other...
BILLY GRAHAM I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH We must face the recognition that what the early Christians saw in Jesus Christ, and what we must ac...
H. RICHARD NIEBUHR Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives t...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference.They bless the one who receives th...
BARBARA DE ANGELIS Some of the South Greene players were saying they'd never seen a press like ours before. It really g...
JAMAR WALKER I see quite a bit of similarities between us, ... They are both headhunters and love to hit, and the...
BRIAN BOSWORTH God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS We have a couple of players who are really interested. We'll always keep in close contact with Graha...
GERALD BRENCE But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything. God lo...
ALICE WALKER ...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS We have a God who loves us. We are in the palm of his hand. He doesn't leave us, and He doesn...
FRANK PERETTI The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, b...
TERRY PRATCHETT Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to ...
L. LIONEL KENDRICK They always play us hard. We always seem to have a bit of trouble with them or have in the past.
GRAHAM MCNABB Love should make us smile, jest and laugh. A stiff relationship is a symptom of a demented affair. G...
JOHN B. BEJO When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Green...
ALAN FURST Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST Love as a flower loves the morning sun.
Love with kindness, expect no return.
Love like t...
DEBASISH MRIDHA If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others whereve...
ROY BENNETT If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others whereve...
ROY T. BENNETT God loves us not because of who we are, but because of who He is.
UNKNOWN Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER TERESA Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money...
MOTHER THERESA Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must...
JERRY BRIDGES We are what we love, not what loves us.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always fail...
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON God loves us the way we are, but too much to leave us that way.
UNKNOWN Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.
DARIUS RUCKER Whenever you make a claim to the credit card company, we actually have to prove that it was you, so ...
DAVID KEITH We need to encourage new believers to feed on God’s Word—it is nourishment for the soul.
BILLY GRAHAM I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless t...
J.D. SALINGER I love only the god whose religion is kindness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Christians want to come. They're proud to bring their friends, rather than saying, 'Gosh, I can't br...
LUIS PALAU How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've con...
BELL HOOKS Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER Just as there are none good but God, and nothing good but goodness, so there are no loves but love i...
C.S. LEWIS We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become ...
C.S. LEWIS We're lazy because God in His kindness and love has given us ample time to achieve our purpose. If H...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always ...
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the ...
LESLIE COCKBURN I feel like my two loves have come together -- my love for children and my love for God.
AMY SCHLATTERBECK When someone you love makes compassion, kindness, forgiveness, respect and God an option, you can be...
SHANNON L. ALDER If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
HENNING MANKELL Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not ...
JOYCE MEYER All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
KATHRYN STOCKETT People are required to show a legal identity, their required to show a proof of age and citizenship,...
LARRY BUSH The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; th...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ...
GARY F EVANS... All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God
PLATO You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehea...
AYN RAND They understood the theology of their bodies, ... The call to love as God loves is stamped right in...
CHRISTOPHER WEST God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of ho...
W. H. AUDEN In Mexico, they don't have birth certificates... They don't have registration cards for vote...
PETE GALLEGO True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one af...
MARY BAKER EDDY We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love a...
ANNE LAMOTT The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really...
ROBERT FULGHUM The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by ...
C.S. LEWIS I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
MICHAEL KORDA I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as...
LEO TOLSTOY Let our religions unite us for human kindness rather than dividing us on what we believe. Eid Mubara...
HOCKSON FLOIN None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I hate a macho sort who doesn't cry. They have to be a bit sensitive, don't they? One guy even said ...
EMMA BUNTON You don't have to dream about a person to love them, if you truly love them they are always on your ...
JAMES W. MATTHEWS Don’t judge anything. If you have to judge, judge with kindness and love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA

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GRAHAM GREENE You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'

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GRAHAM GREENE The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
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GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s...
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BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE