Top 1200 Favor Of God Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

If you're going to kill yourself just do me one favor: say it was because of my act. Can you do that? I need the press.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

I do not wear a lot of makeup. On social media, this seems to work both in my favor and against me.

In my more lucid moments I know that God is right here, right now; that God is the luminous mystery at the heart of creation and that God is here in the joys and sorrows of the world. And I try to see God in everything and treat all life with reverence.

I'm as deeply suspicious of big government as anyone. I'm strongly in favor of universal coverage but not single payer.

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

Be careful, dear friends, that you do not misrepresent God yourselves. You who murmur; you who say that God deals hardly with you, you give God an ill character; when you look so melancholy, worldlings say, "The religion of Jesus is intolerable;" and so you stain the honor of God.

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God of freedom and humanity rather than enslavement and subservience; a God of love, righteousness and community rather than hatred, self-interest and exploitation.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.

The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

In essence, sin is all that is in opposition to God. Sin defies God; it violates His character, His law, and His covenant. It fails, as Martin Luther put it, to 'let God be God.' Sin aims to dethrone God and strives to place someone or something else upon His rightful throne.

I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

It is not insignificant that my first apprehension of the love of God was granted in an experience with my father. Nor is it generally uncommon that God is apprehended in experience. Nor, in fact, can the divine and human meeting happen any other way. God is not a God of the pulpit, though the pulpit proclaim him. He is a God in and of the histories of humankind. What is significant is that I should have to say so.

In spite of the way many people are turning away from God, not for other gods, but for no god; in spite of the mess we are making of this beautiful Planet Earth which God has given us, God still loves the world.

I surrender my anxiety and my sense of urgency. I allow God to guide me in the pacing of my life. I open my heart to God's timing. I release my deadlines, agendas, and stridency to the gentle yet often swift pacing of God. As I open my heart to God's unfoldings, my heart attains peace. As I relax into God's timing, my heart contains comfort. As I allow God to set the tone and schedule of my days, I find myself in the right time and place, open and available to God's opportunities.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.

Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one." "Fondue?" he asked hopefully.

If you want to curry favor with a politician, give him credit for something someone else did.

Most important, do not ever think that you and God are separate. Think always, "God is with me; He is inside me; He is around me. All there is is God. I myself am God. I am the Infinite, the Eternal. I am not two; I am one, only one. There is no one else besides me. I and God are one and the same." To realize this Unity, the first step is to develop Self-confidence. It comes when you realize that God is not outside of you.

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers-he is offended by Anything Less. If your prayers aren't impossible to You, they are insulting to God- why? Because they don't require divine intervention. But ask God to part the Red Sea or make the sun stand still or float an iron axhead and God is moved to Omnipotent action

To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly obvious to ourselves and all those around us. It means to live in such a way that when people see us they think, Thank God for God, if God would create such a life.

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

[On being asked if she would favor birth control laws:] I will if you make it retroactive.

The universe gives to those who ask without favor. The electric plug which connects you is desire.

It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.

We've created a theology in the West of a God who is fundamentally self-centered. The imagery of God as distant, unapproachable, unreachable -- that's not a God who is relational. It is a God that gets to declare or judge when he gets pissed off. But there is no basis for love and relationships if God is a fundamentally self-centered being.

I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.

Who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.

In various ways all of us should be constantly finding people and situations that are dead, buried, and covered up in order to help bring them to the light because THE GOD THAT WE SERVE is a God of LIGHT, a God of LOVE, and a God of CARING.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

God is a God of motion, of movement, and of mission... Mission is not an activity of the church but an attribute of God. God is a missionary God, Jesus is a missionary Messiah, and the Spirit is a missionary Spirit. Missions is the family business.

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that God cannot be trusted; that God's love cannot be depended upon; that God's acceptance of you is conditional; that the ultimate outcome is thus in doubt. For if you cannot depend on God's love to always be there, on whose love can you depend? If God retreats and withdraws when you do not perform properly, will not mere mortals also?

It's not easy to sit and trust that in solitude God will speak to you - not as a magical voice but that God will let you know something gradually over the years. And in that word from God you will find the inner place from which to live your life. Solitude is where spiritual ministry begins. That's where Jesus listened to God. That's where we listen to God.

Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.

I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.

Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter... Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.

No one is in favor of a bill that would force American citizens to have to interact with law enforcement in a way that wasn't appropriate.

I'm an only child and an American and am wholly in favor of uniqueness of voice in everything, especially music and writing.

I've learned my tricks. I know what I like. I do not wait around. I initiate. And I'm not all about frequency - I favor intensity.

Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

I'm in favor of people getting in where they fit in. Wherever you feel you can make the greatest contribution, you should.

Let us see that we keep God before our eyes; that we walk in His ways and seek to please and glorify Him in everything, great and small. Depend upon it, God's work, done in God's way, will never lack God's supplies.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

The desperation was coming off you in waves. You were all but begging to dance with me. I am doing you a favor.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.