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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
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There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.
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Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
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Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.
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In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.
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The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.
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It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose him as an alternative to hell.
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The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
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I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it.
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I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
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The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.
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Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence.
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The gap between those who worship different gods is not so wide as the gap between those who worship and those who don't.
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We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it.
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Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'
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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
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There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'
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I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
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Born:
November 29, 1898
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 64)
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