 Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain Topics: Forgiveness |
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold Glasow Topics: Friendship |
From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call me fifty days or fifty years from now and I'll be glad to see you.
- Richard Hooker Topics: Friendship |
To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.
- Abraham Lincoln Topics: Giving |
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
- Ignatius of Antioch Topics: Giving |
God will mend a broken heart if you give Him all the pieces.
- Aesop Topics: God, Suffering, Brokenness |
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We are told in scripture that with God all things are possible. But Lewis states that this does not mean that God can do anything. God cannot, for example, answer nonsensical questions...He cannot do both of two mutually exclusive things; for example, He cannot create creatures with free will and at the same time withhold free will from them.
- Armand M. Nicholi Topics: God, Scripture, Freedom |
Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Benjamin Franklin Topics: God, Prayer, Business |
Our only business is to love and delight ourselves in God.
- Brother Lawrence Topics: God |
A God all mercy is a God unjust.
- Edward Young Topics: God, Justice |
Everything that God asks is absolutely intelligent and proper.
- Gordon Olson Topics: God |
It is absolutely illogical to believe that nothing produces something, or that profoundly intricate designs have come into existence by self-generation. The more simple and natural conclusion is that there is an immeasurably great Creator and Benefactor back of all the remarkable existences which we observe and experience.
- Gordon Olson Topics: God |
