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title: "6 Divine Appointment Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-mckendree-bounds/prayer-is-a-specific-divine-appointment-an-ordinance-of-heaven/)

[Edward McKendree Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-mckendree-bounds/)

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> [I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wess-stafford/i-have-become-convinced-that-if-god-stands-a-child-before-you-for/)

[Wess Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wess-stafford/)

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> [Jesus . . . wants us to see that the neighbor next door or the people sitting next to us on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-pippert/jesus-wants-us-to-see-that-the-neighbor-next-door-or-the-people/)

[Rebecca Pippert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-pippert/)

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> [“Death is a divine appointment.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-c-sproul-2/death-is-a-divine-appointment/)

[R.C. Sproul](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-c-sproul-2/)

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> [Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-hodge/our-second-remark-is-that-the-office-is-of-divine-appointment-not/)

[Charles Hodge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-hodge/)

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> [Every child you encounter is a divine appointment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wess-stafford/every-child-you-encounter-is-a-divine-appointment/)

[Wess Stafford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wess-stafford/)

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