John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God."
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Keith Green
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!"
Ronald Reagan
Politician, Actor
"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love."
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"We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding."
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"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
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"When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die."
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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."
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"The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart."
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"No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief."
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"To love is to be vulnerable."
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"Zen... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes."
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"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder."
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"While we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe, the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to them whose minds have not yielded to the evidence which has convinced us."
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"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."
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"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
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"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
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"I Repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my Music, and more importantly, my Life has not provoked you into Godly Jealousy or to SELL OUT MORE COMPLETELY TO JESUS!"
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"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
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"Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity."
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"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
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"Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise."
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"One is very crazy when in love."
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"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."
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