Careful Quote by Francis Spufford Download Open image “God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.” — Francis Spufford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Careful Character Generosity God Kindness Reckless Virtue Want
God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“The nature of God’s love for us is outrageous. Why doesn’t this God of ours display some taste and discretion in dealing with us?… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take you. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
God evidently does not intend us all to be rich, or powerful or great, but He does intend us all to be friends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Lo! my God, without merit on my part, of His pure and free mercy, has given to me (an unworthy, condemned, and contemptible creature)… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. — John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge Copy Share Image
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“Beyond the breakwater you can no longer touch bottom, but you are not afraid, for in this sea the harder you swim the stronger… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“You do not chuse where You bestow your Heart. Your Heart bestows Itself, will-you-nill-you, in the Midst of other Business. —” — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately. — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
When I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“...what goes on inside believers is mysterious. So far as it can be guessed at - if for some reason you wanted to guess… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Only careful political manoeuvring will be able to manage the situation.” — Davan Yahya Khalil Copy Share Image
Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Physical beauty is not everything, but the beauty is more careful than anything. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really like to… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
You've got to be careful against classy fighters, especially counter-punchers because if you go for the finish too early, you can end up getting… — Carl Froch Copy Share Image
[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her. — Lysa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image