A Quote by Rick Warren
If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.
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I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
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God's ultimate concern is not to get you or me from point A to point B along the quickest, easiest, smoothest, clearest route possible. Instead, his ultimate concern is that you and I would know him deeply as we trust him more completely.
If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.
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