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title: "115 Does God Quotes by 105 authors"
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> [Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/does-god-understand-you-find-the-answer-in-bethlehem/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [Does God exist? Well, I would say, not yet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-kurzweil/does-god-exist-well-i-would-say-not-yet/)

[Ray Kurzweil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-kurzweil/)

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> [God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-brown-taylor/god-does-some-of-god-s-best-work-with-people-who-are-seriously-lost/)

[Barbara Brown Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-brown-taylor/)

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> [Does God say, "cut back on the sunsets?" No, our Maker is abundant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kiyosaki/does-god-say-cut-back-on-the-sunsets-no-our-maker-is-abundant/)

[Robert Kiyosaki](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kiyosaki/)

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> [Does God have a sense of humor? He must have if He created us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-gleason/does-god-have-a-sense-of-humor-he-must-have-if-he-created-us/)

[Jackie Gleason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-gleason/)

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> [“but the one who does the will of God lives forever.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-hitchcock/but-the-one-who-does-the-will-of-god-lives-forever/)

[Mark Hitchcock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-hitchcock/)

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> [Not without design does God write the music of our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-ruskin/not-without-design-does-god-write-the-music-of-our-lives/)

[John Ruskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-ruskin/)

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> [Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramakrishna/why-does-god-allow-evil-in-the-world-to-thicken-the-plot/)

[Ramakrishna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramakrishna/)

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> [I wonder: when a Jehovah's Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He's not home?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brian-celio/i-wonder-when-a-jehovah-s-witness-dies-and-goes-to-heaven-does-god/)

[Brian Celio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brian-celio/)

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> [But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/1-john-3-17/but-if-anyone-has-the-world-s-goods-and-sees-his-brother-in-need-yet/)

[1 John 3:17](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/1-john-3-17/)

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> [“Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-howard-joslin/ann-how-does-god-s-character-fit-into-things-that-seem-totally/)

[K. Howard Joslin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-howard-joslin/)

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> [God loves everyone in the world who doesn't love himself. Does God love God?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/god-loves-everyone-in-the-world-who-doesn-t-love-himself-does-god/)

[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-teilhard-de-chardin/)

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> [What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-macdonald/what-does-god-want-me-to-do-not-what-will-god-do-if-i-do-so-and-so/)

[George MacDonald](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-macdonald/)

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> [A Russian child asked his mother : "does God know we don't believe in Him?"](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yip-harburg/a-russian-child-asked-his-mother-does-god-know-we-don-t-believe-in-him/)

[Yip Harburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yip-harburg/)

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> [I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/i-went-to-medical-school-because-i-wanted-to-ask-the-big-questions-do/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“The persistent question, “Why does God allow adversity to impact our lives?” is ancient. Throughout the long arc of human history,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leary-bonnett/the-persistent-question-why-does-god-allow-adversity-to-impact-our/)

[Leary Bonnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leary-bonnett/)

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> [“But he asked himself now if he would not be disobeying God. And does not God permit love, since He surrounds it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-de-maupassant/but-he-asked-himself-now-if-he-would-not-be-disobeying-god-and-does/)

[Guy de Maupassant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-de-maupassant/)

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> [“your default response is the word of God. As soon as you are hit with a negative emotion, instead of giving in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynn-r-davis/your-default-response-is-the-word-of-god-as-soon-as-you-are-hit-with/)

[Lynn R. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynn-r-davis/)

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> [You know a multicolor God who created this world is not going to put us in a white heaven. I guarantee you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-warren/you-know-a-multicolor-god-who-created-this-world-is-not-going-to-put/)

[Rick Warren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-warren/)

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> [“To men who think prayer their main business and devote time to it according to this high estimate of its importance does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-m-bounds-3/to-men-who-think-prayer-their-main-business-and-devote-time-to-it/)

[E.M.Bounds](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-m-bounds-3/)

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> [I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-lucado/i-think-there-is-not-in-the-sense-that-i-enjoy-it-but-that-it-s-an/)

[Max Lucado](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-lucado/)

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> [Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-boyle/does-god-feel-like-that-same-sex-marriage-could-happen-i-don-t-think/)

[Greg Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-boyle/)

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> [“We might put our point this way: to say that God has purposes and plans for his creation says nothing about their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-r-reichenbach/we-might-put-our-point-this-way-to-say-that-god-has-purposes-and/)

[Bruce R. Reichenbach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-r-reichenbach/)

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> [The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-h-smith/the-theist-must-present-an-intelligible-description-of-god-until-he/)

[George H. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-h-smith/)

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> [“Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-s-lane/everything-god-does-and-everything-god-calls-us-to-only-make-sense/)

[Timothy S. Lane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-s-lane/)

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> [“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/has-god-created-millions-of-people-over-tens-of-thousands-of-years/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lennox/i-ve-learned-to-distinguish-between-the-greatness-of-god-and-the/)

[John Lennox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lennox/)

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> [Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/why-do-some-persons-find-god-in-a-way-that-others-do-not-why-does-god/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/loraine-boettner/if-it-be-asked-why-does-god-not-bestow-the-same-or-equal-blessing/)

[Loraine Boettner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/loraine-boettner/)

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> [“So here’s the real heart of the matter: Does God have a secret will of direction that He expects us to figure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-deyoung/so-here-s-the-real-heart-of-the-matter-does-god-have-a-secret-will-of/)

[Kevin DeYoung](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-deyoung/)

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> [If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-g-white/if-you-have-other-gods-before-the-lord-your-heart-will-be-turned-away/)

[Ellen G. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-g-white/)

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> [To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-basil/to-whom-does-our-god-say-in-our-image-gen-1-26-to-whom-if-it-is-not/)

[Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-basil/)

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> [When God says YES, nobody can say no. It does not take God 24hrs to change a man's story. Mordecai was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/akaro/when-god-says-yes-nobody-can-say-no-it-does-not-take-god-24hrs-to/)

[Akaro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/akaro/)

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> [“Why does God not heal when we pray?   My wife and I discussed this question for quite a bit before I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patrick-davis/why-does-god-not-heal-when-we-pray-my-wife-and-i-discussed-this/)

[Patrick Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patrick-davis/)

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> [“We are not going to do the "does God test people" topic complete justice here because it's complicated, but a fair, brief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-laing-thompson/we-are-not-going-to-do-the-does-god-test-people-topic-complete/)

[Elizabeth Laing Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-laing-thompson/)

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> [“How does God fulfill our ultimate longing? He does so in many ways: by being the perfect fit for our very nature,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-w-sire/how-does-god-fulfill-our-ultimate-longing-he-does-so-in-many-ways-by/)

[James W. Sire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-w-sire/)

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> [“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-quick/why-would-god-allow-the-holocaust-to-happen-if-god-made-everything/)

[Matthew Quick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-quick/)

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> [“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-bell/does-god-get-what-god-wants-that-s-a-good-question-an-interesting/)

[Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-bell/)

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> [“Even though May came in accompanied by rain, all the fields were bright with the loveliest green imaginable. A sunbeam pierced a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-scholl/even-though-may-came-in-accompanied-by-rain-all-the-fields-were/)

[Hans Scholl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-scholl/)

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> [“Does God exist? This question has plagued mankind from the beginning of recorded history. Even the saintly Mother Teresa admitted in her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-savage/does-god-exist-this-question-has-plagued-mankind-from-the-beginning/)

[Michael Savage](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-savage/)

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## Top authors on Does God

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-max-lucado-65870.jpg) Max Lucado 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/does-god/max-lucado/)

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                        "text": "Does God feel like that same-sex marriage could happen? I don't think anybody who has a connection to God and God's understanding and depth of compassion who's gonna say 'no.'",
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                        "text": "The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than unie; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd.",
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                        "text": "“Everything God does and everything God calls us to only make sense from the perspective of eternity. If there is no end to the story, believers are a bunch of fools who need to be pitied. There is no reason for what we have tried to do. But there is a final chapter! God has opened it up so that we could look in and then look back to our lives with understanding and hope.”",
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                        "text": "“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God do this, or even allow this, and still claim to be a loving God? Does God punish people for thousands of years with infinite, eternal torment for things they did in their few finite years of life?”",
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                        "text": "I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name. And so I do not deduce [as Christopher Hitchens does] that God is not great, and that religion poisons everything. After all, if I failed to distinguish between the genius of Einstein and the abuse of his science to create weapons of mass destruction, I might be tempted to say science is not great, and technology poisons everything.",
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                        "text": "Why do some persons 'find' God in a way that others do not? Why does God manifest His Presence to some and let multitudes of others struggle along in the half-light of imperfect Christian experience? Of course the will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us.",
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                        "text": "If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claim…and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.",
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                        "text": "“So here’s the real heart of the matter: Does God have a secret will of direction that He expects us to figure out before we do anything? And the answer is no. Yes, God has a specific plan for our lives. And yes, we can be assured that He works things for our good in Christ Jesus. And yes, looking back we will often be able to trace God’s hand in bringing us to where we are. But while we are free to ask God for wisdom, He does not burden us with the task of divining His will of direction for our lives ahead of time.”",
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                        "text": "If you have other gods before the Lord, your heart will be turned away from serving the only true and living God, who requires the whole heart, the undivided affections. All the heart, all the soul, all the mind, and all the strength, does God require. He will accept of nothing short of this.",
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                        "text": "To Whom does our God say, 'in our image' (Gen. 1:26), to whom if it is not to Him who is 'the brightness of His glory and the express image of His Person' (Heb. 1:3), 'the image of the invisible God' (Col. 1:15)? It is then to His living image, to Him Who has said 'I and My Father are one' (Jn. 10:30), 'He who has seen Me has seen the Father' (Jn. 14:9), that God says, 'Let us make man in our image'.",
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                        "text": "When God says YES, nobody can say no. It does not take God 24hrs to change a man's story. Mordecai was a gate man to king Ahaseurus, when his book of remembrance was opened,his story changed from gate to palace. Joseph was a prisoner in Egypt, but a day came when God made him to become a Prime Minister in the same Egypt. This same God can still do it for you, When God opens your book of remembrance, all your sorrows will turn into l aughter, all your days of mourning will turn into dancing, those who mock you, will come & celebrate with you, those who look down on you, will look up to you, those who say who are you? Will come & say how are you to you? I pray that may the Lord do for you, what will shock your enemies, may God promote you above your contemporaries. May God fight your hidden battles and grant you victory in every areas of your life. May God's eyes of mercy shine upon you. May God send you help from the four corners of the World. May God deliver you from every evil",
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                        "text": "“Why does God not heal when we pray?   My wife and I discussed this question for quite a bit before I attempted to answer it. I consider it one of the more difficult questions, but before I describe the difficulty, I would like to set the record straight. God does answer prayer! He answers many times, and in many ways. He leads me, guides my path, and opens and closes doors in life’s pathways all the time. Just the other day, I got mixed up with my daughters and my wife texting me at the same time, and entirely due to my error, I ended up on a strange street accidentally finding my daughter and her baby with car trouble. It is one of those strange coincidences that have happened to me so repeatedly in the past forty years! It is what my family has come to call “a God-thing”.”",
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                        "text": "“We are not going to do the \"does God test people\" topic complete justice here because it's complicated, but a fair, brief summary would be this: Yes, God sometimes tests us (Deuteronomy 13:3, I Chronicles 29:17). But by God tests us, we don't mean He puts us through trials to see if we will fail (even secretly hoping we will fail). No, when God tests us, He is looking to find out what is in our hearts. He is looking to expose strength and weakness, to show us where we are and where we need to grow. His tests are not so much like a driver's license exam - you pass or fail - but like the diagnostic test a car manufacturer does on the cars themselves before releasing them into the world. The manufacturer needs to know if the vehicles are safe and ready for the road or if they need more work before they leave the factory.”",
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                        "text": "“How does God fulfill our ultimate longing? He does so in many ways: by being the perfect fit for our very nature, by satisfying our longing for interpersonal relationship, by being in his omniscience the end to our search for knowledge, by being in his infinite being the refuge from all fear, by being in his holiness the righteous ground of our quest for justice, by being in his infinite love the cause of our hope for salvation, by being in his infinite creativity both the source of our creative imagination and the ultimate beauty we seek to reflect as we ourselves create.”",
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                        "text": "“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then hold our sins against us? Why are there so many religions in the world if god created the world and wants us to be Christian? Why does god allow people to fight wars over him? What if you were born in a different culture and never even heard of Jesus Christ—would god send you to hell for not being Christian? And if so, do you believe that's fair? Why are men always the leaders in your church? Aren't women capable of leading too? Isn't such a patriarchal system sexist in this day and age? Why do so many babies die? Why are there so many poor people in the world? Did Jesus visit any other planets in distant unknown universes?”",
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                        "text": "“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us much to discuss. But there’s a better question. One that we actually can answer. One that takes all of the speculation about the future, which no one has been to and returned with hard empirical evidence, and brings it back to one absolute we can depend on in the midst of all of this which turns out to be another question. It’s not, “Does God get what God wants?” but “Do we get what we want?” and the answer to that is a resounding, affirming, sure and certain yes. Yes, we get what we want, God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given power and strength to make the world in our own image, God allows us that freedom and we have that kind of license to do that. If we want nothing to do with light, love, hope, grace, and peace God respects that desire on our part and we are given a life free from any of those realities. The more we want nothing to do with what God is, the more distance and space is created. If we want nothing to do with love, we are given a reality free from love. If, however, we crave light, we’re drawn to truth, we’re desperate for grace, we’ve come to the end of our plots and schemes and we want someone else’s path, God gives us what we want. If we have this sense that we have wandered far from home and we want to return, God is there standing in the driveway arms open, ready to invite us in. If we thirst for Shalom and we long for the peace that transcends all understanding, God doesn’t just give, they are poured out on us lavishly, heaped until we are overwhelmed. It’s like a feast where the food and wine do not run out. These desires can start with the planting of an infinitesimally small seed in our heart, or a yearning for life to be better, or a gnawing sense that we are missing out, or an awareness that beyond the routine and grind of life there is something more, or the quiet hunch that this isn’t all there is. It often has it’s birth in the most unexpected ways, arising out of our need for something we know we do not have, for someone we know we are not. And to that, that impulse, craving, yearning, longing, desire God says, “Yes!”. Yes there is water for that thirst, food for that hunger, light for that darkness, relief for that burden. If we want hell, if we want heaven then they are ours. that’s how love works, it can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says, “yes”, we can have what we want because love wins.”",
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                        "text": "“Even though May came in accompanied by rain, all the fields were bright with the loveliest green imaginable. A sunbeam pierced a little gap in the dark sea of cloud, and the world laughed and glittered in the light of heaven. I stood there marveling and thought, Does God take us for fools, that he should light up the world for us with such consummate beauty in the radiance of his glory, in his honor? And nothing, on the other hand, but rapine and murder? Where does the truth lie? Should one go off and build a little house with flowers outside the windows and a garden outside the door and extol and thank God and turnone’s back on the world and its filth? Isn’t seclusion a form of treachery of desertion? I’m weak and puny, but I want to do what is right.”",
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                        "text": "“Does God exist? This question has plagued mankind from the beginning of recorded history. Even the saintly Mother Teresa admitted in her last years that, many times in her life, she did not know the answer to this question. Yet we live as if God does exist and as if there will be a Judgment Day when we will be judged for our good and bad deeds. But what is good and what is bad? That has become increasingly confusing in this age of relativity. There seem to be no mores that are considered universal. Can that be so? Look at the Ten Commandments. Read all of them. “Thou shall not kill.” What does that mean? Aren’t we told to kill in war? Well, if you read the original Hebrew, the word is “murder.” The commandment is “Thou shall not murder.” It does not say, “Thou shall not kill.” They are two completely different things. It takes some knowledge of the history of both the Hebrew language and of the prophets themselves to properly interpret not only the Ten Commandments but mankind’s guidebook for life on this earth, the Bible.”",
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