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You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.Amy Layne Litzelman
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So much can change from one day to the next, but the one thing that always remains the same is God. Stay focused on Him. In God We Trust.Germany Kent
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If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.DaShanne Stokes
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator burdened with all the contradictions in the world.Simone De Beauvoir
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The assumption of no God cannot be proven by science." - Scientific Faith"Under the Thelián Sky: Beyond the Great Unknown" (c) 2012Frank Olvera
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Boxes of religion I avoid as I embrace the freedom that Christ gave me at great cost upon the crossJohn M Sheehan
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If it doesn't agree with your spirit let it go.Germany Kent
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Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.James Baldwin
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Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it.Germany Kent
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Freedom is my religion. Peace is my God. Love is my worship.Banani Ray
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So a good man can be a bad Christian?""I suppose so."" Then a bad man, " I said, "can be a good Christian?Bernard Cornwell
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Many Christians live in a prison created by their own disobedience of Biblical Requirements.Daryl Baugh
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Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Christianity is a way of life - not a dogma!Stefan Emunds
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On the latter point, it was sometimes noted that Christians gathered together under the cloak of darkness, calling one another "brother" and "sister" and greeting one another with kisses; they were said to worship their god by eating the flesh and drinking the blood of the Son of God. What was one to make of such practices? If you can imagine the worst, you won't be far off. Pagan opponents claimed that Christians engaged in ritual incest (sexual acts with brothers and sisters), infanticide (killing the Son), and cannibalism (eating his flesh and drinking his blood). These charges may seem incredible today, but in a society that respected decency and openness, they were widely acÂcepted. Christians were perceived as a nefarious lot.Bart D. Ehrman
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One should not embrace religion because they are born into it, one should embrace religion because they have faith in it. Gabriel O GabrielsGhana2016Gabriel O Gabriels
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I walk boldly and confidently relying on God.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Pursue your God-given goals.Lailah Gifty Akita
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A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the pain of what it will cost youIkechukwu Onwukwe
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A powerful vision has the therapeutic effect of numbing the cost of what it will cost you.Ikechukwu Onwukwe
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One act of kindness teaches more about the love of Jesus than the words I speak.Hector Perez
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Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The moment we care for anything deeply, the world - that is, all the other miscellaneous interests - becomes our enemy. Christians showed it when they talked of keeping one's self "unspotted from the world;" but lovers talk of it just as much when they talk of the "world well lost." Astronomically speaking, I understand that England is situated on the world; similarly, I suppose that the Church was a part of the world, and even the lovers inhabitants of that orb. But they all felt a certain truth - the truth that the moment you love anything the world becomes your foe.G.k. Chesterton
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Having a positive attitude gives you power. This isn't the same kind of power that dictators and warlords seek after, but rather a spiritual power. It's a power that comes to us from God.Lindsey Rietzsch
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We are God's chosen people. We are God's treasured possession. Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Life is uncertain. Lord grant us gracious courage to face the uncertainty of life.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy.Germany Kent
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Be happy but when sad times come, know that God allow these time for self-realisation.Lailah Gifty Akita
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God of miracles. God of wonders.Lailah Gifty Akita
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How you respond to what is happening in your life can make a difference. Your conduct in the confusion, your resolve while enduring pain and your positive thought process during the tribulation can help you handle what is happening in your life. Those are the proskairos moments that make the difference as you are maneuvering the waves of life. Those moments are filled with the presence of God and how you respond and behave in those moments makes all of the difference. .Unknown
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Use wisdom when developing relationships and establishing new alliances. There are people who do not have pure motives as it pertains to developing relationships. They only want to be seen with you because they want to establish association. These people want the recognition affiliated with your success but they are not willing to go through what you did to achieve it.Unknown
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Your faith is designed to operate outside of your emotions. When you operate in faith, how you feel has no bearing on how you respond. Faith does not need your emotions to confirm what you are believing God to do in your life. We should understand what we are feeling and why we are feeling it but we should not be distracted or controlled by how we feel. Have faith.Dawn M. Harvey
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Grace: All that I am and will be.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Little kids I don't mind. Every kid wants a pony. It's grown-ups that get my robe in a knot. Stop with the begging, okay? Adore me for a change. Or give thanks. I like gratitude. Or ask for guidance. But oh, no. It's always the pony.Ron Koertge
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You start to live when you commit your life to cause higher than yourself. You must learn to depend on divine power for the fulfillment of a higher calling.Lailah GiftyAkita
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Elohim is my salvation, my strength and my song.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The greatest privileges: You are saved. You are a child of Most High God.You are co-heirs with Christ.You share in Christ suffering, life adversities. You share in Christ glory, strength of will and survival of life's difficulties.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Keep the faith. It is the greatest gift.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Power of prayer, serenity for the soul.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Who am I?What is my mission?Lailah Gifty Akita
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Daily seek the divine presence of God.Lailah Gifty Akita
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He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours.Lailah Gifty Akita
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God is Holy.God is pure. God is faithful. God is gracious. God is merciful.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The spirit of God is mighty upon us.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The Bible is a fountain of life, an instruction on how God want you to live a life on earth.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.Joey Lawsin
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Renew your mind with the knowledge on scriptures daily. You will be better equipped to handle any situation.Lailah Gifty Akita
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In your darkest times, never be afraid. The Lord's presence is always with you.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fineJim Britts
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The English word Atonement comes from the ancient Hebrew word kaphar, which means to cover. When Adam and Eve partook of the fruit and discovered their nakedness in the Garden of Eden, God sent Jesus to make coats of skins to cover them. Coats of skins don’t grow on trees. They had to be made from an animal, which meant an animal had to be killed. Perhaps that was the very first animal sacrifice. Because of that sacrifice, Adam and Eve were covered physically. In the same way, through Jesus’ sacrifice we are also covered emotionally and spiritually. When Adam and Eve left the garden, the only things they could take to remind them of Eden were the coats of skins. The one physical thing we take with us out of the temple to remind us of that heavenly place is a similar covering. The garment reminds us of our covenants, protects us, and even promotes modesty. However, it is also a powerful and personal symbol of the Atonement–a continuous reminder both night and day that because of Jesus’ sacrifice, we are covered. (I am indebted to Guinevere Woolstenhulme, a religion teacher at BYU, for insights about kaphar.) Jesus covers us (see Alma 7) when we feel worthless and inadequate. Christ referred to himself as “Alpha and Omega” (3 Nephi 9:18). Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. Christ is surely the beginning and the end. Those who study statistics learn that the letter alpha is used to represent the level of significance in a research study. Jesus is also the one who gives value and significance to everything. Robert L. Millet writes, “In a world that offers flimsy and fleeting remedies for mortal despair, Jesus comes to us in our moments of need with a ‘more excellent hope’ (Ether 12:32)” (Grace Works, 62).Jesus covers us when we feel lost and discouraged. Christ referred to Himself as the “light” (3 Nephi 18:16). He doesn’t always clear the path, but He does illuminate it. Along with being the light, He also lightens our loads. “For my yoke is easy, ” He said, “and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:30). He doesn’t always take burdens away from us, but He strengthens us for the task of carrying them and promises they will be for our good. Jesus covers us when we feel abused and hurt. Joseph Smith taught that because Christ met the demands of justice, all injustices will be made right for the faithful in the eternal scheme of things (see Teachings, 296). Marie K. Hafen has said, “The gospel of Jesus Christ was not given us to prevent our pain. The gospel was given us to heal our pain” (“Eve Heard All These Things, ” 27).Jesus covers us when we feel defenseless and abandoned. Christ referred to Himself as our “advocate” (D&C 29:5): one who believes in us and stands up to defend us. We read, “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler” (Psalm 18:2). A buckler is a shield used to divert blows. Jesus doesn’t always protect us from unpleasant consequences of illness or the choices of others, since they are all part of what we are here on earth to experience. However, He does shield us from fear in those dark times and delivers us from having to face those difficulties alone. …We’ve already learned that the Hebrew word that is translated into English as Atonement means “to cover.” In Arabic or Aramaic, the verb meaning to atone is kafat, which means “to embrace.” Not only can we be covered, helped, and comforted by the Savior, but we can be “encircled about eternally in the arms of his love” (2 Nephi 1:15). We can be “clasped in the arms of Jesus” (Mormon 5:11). In our day the Savior has said, “Be faithful and diligent in keeping the commandments of God, and I will encircle thee in the arms of my love” (D&C 6:20).(Brad Wilcox, The Continuous Atonement, pp. 47-49, 60).Brad Wilcox
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Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.D.R. Silva
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Be specific in your prayers. Carefully craft what you speak. What you say should be in accordance with the word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit. You will find that this will resolve attacks or issues that arise.Unknown
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God cares. He will supply all your needs.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The scripture gives us timeless hope.Lailah Gifty Akita
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We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Daily prayer, daily grace.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Heavenly Father, let your glory be seen in our lives.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest.Lailah Gifty Akita
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The Bible is such a gargantuan collection of conflicting values that anyone can "prove" anything from it.Robert A. Heinlein
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The bible is so simple you have to have someone else help you misunderstand it..Harmon Okinyo
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God is able to do more than you ever imagine! Keep trusting God. Your miracle will surely come true.Lailah Gifty Akita
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How can a man know how to live rightly on the face of earth? By daily reading and meditation on the Holy Scriptures and obedience to what is written.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Our Creator has always known of us and has always loved us.Michael Mannia
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We are all born free from all religious affiliations and only come to believe in such things after being introduced to it ― so, atheism is the default position. Although some children are not indoctrinated with a specific religion before the age of reason, there are many more who are.David G. McAfee
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God is great. God is amazing.Lailah Gifty Akita
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Religion is for those who are without the pure knowledge of the Almighty true God- Jehovah the Creator of the Heavens and the earth.it is also for those who are ignorant of the fact of who God is and are neither founded in Him nor allign themselves to His righteous standards..but are lovers of sins and every acts and pleasures that does not glorify Him. Christianity is not a religion and will never be. It is a relationship consisting of our being in unity with Jesus Christ and with others..tuned and under the banner of Christ-likeness, upholding justice and righteousness.Taitusi Williams Savou
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.. .the young man who rings the bell at the brothel is unconsciously looking for God.Bruce Marshall
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Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief- that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never..intended. So they said to one another: "Let's join together and make a great book that will last forever that will mock the credulity of man.. We'll include all the most preposterous old wives' tales now current. We'll choose the keenest satirist alive to compile a deity from all the deities worshipped by mankind, a deity who will be more magnificent than any of them, yet so weakly human that he'll become a byword for laughter the world over- and we'll ascribe to him all sorts of jokes and vanities and rages, in which he'll be supposed to indulge for his own diversion, so that the people will read our book and ponder it, and there'll be no more nonsense in the world.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This will be my last year, Lord. I have gotten what I can. Thank You.Beth Nimmo
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Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.Unknown
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Gods fight, Ragnar went on earnestly, and some win, some lose. The Christian god is losing. Otherwise why would we be here? Why would we be winning? The gods reward us if we give them respect, but the Christian god doesn't help his people, does he? They weep rivers of tears for him, they pray to him, they give him their silver, & we come along & slaughter them! Their god is pathetic. If he had any real power then we wouldn't be here, would we?.Bernard Cornwell
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What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were possible)? That’s what happened the first time, after all.D.R. Silva
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Wisdom plus knowledge equals understanding.Reid A. Ashbaucher