Demand Quote by D. Todd Christofferson Download Open image “A God who makes no demands, is the functional equivalent of a God who does not exist.” — D. Todd Christofferson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demand Doe Inspirational Spiritual
God never demands anything that He does not provide for. Whatever God commands us to do, He equips us to do. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
God is Godless. God is an idea that we have, another construct, a prop, which doesn't suggest that God doesn't exist. God is existence.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we desire to… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
Effortlessness means not doing anything, inactivity - AKARMA. Effort means doing much, activity - KARMA. Both have to be there. Do much, but don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God. The mighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, will not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be ours every… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
A mother can exert an influence unequaled by any other person in any other relationship. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“One obvious and rather sobering meaning of losing your life by confessing Christ is to lose it, literally, physically, in sustaining and defending your… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
On the other hand, with a sense of the sacred, one grows in understanding and truth. The Holy Spirit becomes his frequent and then… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit from their… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“You know, of course, that as prophesied by Moroni, there are those whose research relating to Joseph Smith is not for the purpose of gaining added light and knowledge but to undermine his character, magnify his flaws, and if possible destroy his influence. Their work product can sometimes be jarring, and so can issues raised at times by honest historians… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share
In creating a family, we fulfill our greatest purpose on earth. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
I testify that in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is found the priesthood authority to administer the ordinances by which we… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other. — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives, neighbors, or the community--are more likely to be overburdened by the demands of their babies and to be unable to respond to them adequately. Parents who experience severe poverty or economic insecurity, who cannot satisfy their own basic… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share
If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
My dogs can't do anything--and what a relief. I don't make any demands of them, and I don't try to shape them or their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Christianity does not oppose debauchery and uncontrollable passions and the like as much as it opposes... flat mediocrity, this nauseating atmosphere, this homey, civil togetherness, where admittedly great crimes, wild excesses, and powerful aberrations cannot easily occur - but where God's unconditional demand has even greater difficulty in accomplishing what it requires: the majestic obedience of submission. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no mistake that we abolished institutional racism in this country around the same time. The easy thing to do is lay low, but then are we who we say we are? Do we actually stand for anything,… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share