God Instead Quotes
22 quotes by 19 authors
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Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue, i.e., it is much easier to ask…
— Oswald Chambers
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If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what…
— Barbara Brown Taylor
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Material possessions in themselves are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing, shelter and food. Yet if we refuse to share what…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord,…
— George MacDonald
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Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.
— Emmet Fox
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It appears to me that men are trying to speak for God instead of letting God speak for himself.
— Theodore M. Burton
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When we say we begin with God, we begin with our idea of God, and our idea of God is not God. Instead, we ought…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Orthodoxy is idolatry if it means holding the 'correct opinions about God' - 'fundamentalism' is the most extreme and salient example of such idolatry -…
— John D. Caputo
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Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to…
— John Calvin
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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
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Spiritual lust--'I must have it at once'--causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God himself who gives the answer. Is today…
— Oswald Chambers
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The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.
— Mary E. DeMuth
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... for our sake loosing within Himself the bonds of bodily birth, He granted us through spiritual birth, according to our own volition, power to…
— Maximus the Confessor
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[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of…
— Sheri S. Tepper
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night,…
— Paul Hawken
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Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of…
— Peter Kreeft
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Authentic love is obviously something good. When we love we become most fully human. But people often consider themselves loving when actually they are possessive…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Count your blessings instead of your troubles. Count your smiles instead of your tears. Count on GOD instead of others.
— Anmol Andore
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I rather take the long road with GOD instead of the Short road I learn more the long way,with patience,love,understanding...
— FRENCHQUEEN
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If you'll chase God instead of your dreams, all your dreams will come true.
— Werley Nortreus
Who Wrote These God Instead Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 22 God Instead Quotes as follows: