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" I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion. "

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" Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story. "

Charles R. Swindoll

" Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls. "

" Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world. "

" My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two. "

" For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. "

" I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His great magnificence and mercy. May He be blessed for ever! For I see clearly that He has not omitted to reward me, even in this life, for every one of my good desires. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter. "

" It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. "

Francis of Assisi

" God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred. "

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

" I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. "

" If one accepts the terms of the covenant and obeys God's law, he or she receives the blessings associated with the covenant. "

Russell M. Nelson

" God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. "

" Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. "

" A miracle is really the only way to describe motherhood and giving birth. It's unbelievable how God has made us women and babies to endure and be able to do so much. A miracle, indeed. Such an incredible blessing. "

" As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there. "

" After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. "

James Prescott Joule

" Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be. "

" I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it. "

" Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts. "

" Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke. "

" I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ. "

Ignatius of Antioch

" Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have. "

" My message is to get human beings to love God, love their neighbor and for the life of me I just don't see the downside of human beings not being so mean to one another and actually care for one another and not steal from one another and not murder each other for their tennis shoes. That's the message I have. "

" Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again. "

" For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love. "

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

" I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. "

" I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is. "

" There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. "

" I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God. "