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" The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme. "

Leland Ryken

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Everything

God

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" I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! "

Christopher McCandless

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Life

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" The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. "

Johann Sebastian Bach

God

End

Music

" The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out. "

" God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends. "

" Rocks and waters, etc., are words of God, and so are men. We all flow from one fountain Soul. All are expressions of one Love. "

" Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence. "

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

" This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control. "

" In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. "

" My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text. "

" Reason in man is rather like God in the world. "

Thomas Aquinas

God

Reason

" I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from. "

Shakira

Knowledge

Grateful

" It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere. "

" Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable. "

" We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. "

" Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. "

" I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. "

" God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.' "

" It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me? "

" America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! "

" The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. "

" Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed. "

T. B. Joshua

God

Plan

" I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. "

" The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. "

" I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? "

" Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions. "

" God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. "

" I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, 'What a waste of energy.' If people want to believe in this god or that god, that's fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself. "

" There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not. "

" Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan. "

Charles Stanley

Disappointment

Trust