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#1

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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#2

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman

tags: meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, uncertainty

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#3

“There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: bible, christian, faith, inspirational

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#4

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

tags: christian, faith, god, jesus, spirituality

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#5

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ”
― John Bunyan

tags: christian, inspirational, prayer, words

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#6

“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display. To do this, the church must stop thinking about everybody primarily in categories of in or out, saved or not, believer or nonbeliever. Besides the fact that these terms are offensive to those who are the "un" and "non", they work against Jesus' teachings about how we are to treat each other. Jesus commanded us to love our neighbor, and our neighbor can be anybody. We are all created in the image of God, and we are all sacred, valuable creations of God. Everybody matters. To treat people differently based on who believes what is to fail to respect the image of God in everyone. As the book of James says, "God shows no favoritism." So we don't either.”
― Rob Bell

tags: christian, rob-bell, velvet-elvis

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#7

“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: bible, christian

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#8

“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

tags: acceptance, christ, christian, opinions

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#9

“What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
The greatness of God not admired.
The power of God not praised.
The truth of God not sought.
The wisdom of God not esteemed.
The beauty of God not treasured.
The goodness of God not savored.
The faithfulness of God not trusted.
The commandments of God not obeyed.
The justice of God not respected.
The wrath of God not feared.
The grace of God not cherished.
The presence of God not prized.
The person of God not loved.
That is sin.”
― John Piper

tags: christian, god, sin, what-is-sin

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#10

“We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.”
― Max Lucado, Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love

tags: christian, christian-life, christian-living, christianity, heaven

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#11

“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”
― Helen Steiner Rice

tags: christian, friends, inspiration

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#12

“Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to something
unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability—
and that it may take a very long time.

And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually—let them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.

Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

tags: christian, patience, slow-work, trust

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#13

“Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!”
― Charles Spurgeon

tags: charles-spurgeon, christian, evangelism, share, witness

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#14

“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”
― corrie ten boom

tags: christian, faith, joy

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#15

“Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

tags: christian, inspirational, music, power-of-music

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#16

“This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive.
Love is not possessive.
Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage.
Love is not touchy.
Love does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limits to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that stands when all else has fallen.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman

tags: christian, love, relationships

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#17

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: christian, god, jesus, pray, prayer

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#18

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: acquaintances, advice, caring, caring-for-others, catholic, catholic-author, christian, companion, constructive-criticism, criticism, flattery, friend, friends, friendship, gadfly, hard-truths, human-nature, people, tough-love, true-friends, true-love, truth, wisdom, wise-sayings

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#19

“I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”
― Max Lucado

tags: christian, gentleness, inspirational

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#20

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: alone, christian, fight, inspirational, lord

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#21

“What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV) a”
― Anonymous

tags: bible, christian

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#22

“Language is the key to the heart of people.”
― Ahmed Deedat

tags: ahmed, ahmed-deedat, arabic, christian, culture, deedat, english, harmony, heart, hindu, islam, key, language, literature, love, muslims, non-muslim, peace, people, religion

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#23

“Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

tags: christian

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#24

“Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: blame, blame-game, catholic, catholic-author, christian, gadfly, god, good, good-and-evil, goodness, human-nature, pain, satan, suffering, suffering-of-humanity, sufferings, thought-provoking

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#25

“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.”
― Max Lucado (Grace for the Moment)

tags: christian, inspirational

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#26

“Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

tags: christian, faith, inspirational

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#27

“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.”
― Martin Luther

tags: christian, christian-living, craftsmanship, work

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#28

“The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.”
― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye

tags: christ, christian, cross, god, inspirational, jesus, love, passion, romance, world

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#29

“He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: christian, education, faith, fake-quote, god, gravity, isaac-newton, newton, physics, spirituality

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#30

“Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender

tags: blessing, christian, fun, god, inspirational, jesus, leisure, rest, work

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