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Saturday, December 09, 2023

Sin Quotes

Quotes About Sin 

  • Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to pay.
  • There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought. --L. M. MONTGOMERY
  • Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His. --John G. Lake
  • The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't. --Mary Astell, English Writer (1666-1731)
  • All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. --FRANK HERBERT
  • People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. --D. A. Carson
  • Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony --John Stott
  • The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. --Dwight L. Moody






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SIN, n.
1. The voluntary departure of a moral agent from a known rule of rectitude or duty, prescribed by God; any voluntary transgression of the divine law, or violation of a divine command; a wicked act; iniquity. Sin is either a positive act in which a known divine law is violated, or it is the voluntary neglect to obey a positive divine command, or a rule of duty clearly implied in such command. Sin comprehends not action only, but neglect of known duty, all evil thoughts purposes, words and desires, whatever is contrary to God's commands or law. 1 John 3. Mat 15. James 4. Sinner neither enjoy the pleasures of nor the peace of piety. Among divines, sin is original or actual. Actual sin, above defined, is the act of a moral agent in violating a known rule of duty. Original sin, as generally understood, is native depravity of heart to the divine will, that corruption of nature of deterioration of the moral character of man, which is supposed to be the effect of Adam's apostasy; and which manifests itself in moral agents by positive act of disobedience to the divine will, or by the voluntary neglect to comply with the express commands of God, which require that we should love God with all the heart and soul and strength and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves. This native depravity or alienation of affections from God and his law, is supposed to be what the apostle calls the carnal mind or mindedness, which is enmity against God, and is therefore denominated sin or sinfulness. Unpardonable sin, or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, is supposed to be a malicious and obstinate rejection of Christ and the gospel plan of salvation, or a contemptuous resistance made to the influences and convictions of the Holy Spirit. Mat 12.
2. A sin-offering; an offering made to atone for sin. He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin. 2 Cor 5.
3. A man enormously wicked. [Not in use.]
4. Sin differs from crime, not in nature, but in application. That which is a crime against society, is sin against God.

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Proverbs 22:8 (MSG) Whoever sows sin reaps weeds, and bullying anger sputters into nothing.
Romans 7:13 (MSG) I can already hear your next question: “Does that mean I can’t even trust what is good [that is, the law]? Is good just as dangerous as evil?” No again! Sin simply did what sin is so famous for doing: using the good as a cover to tempt me to do what would finally destroy me. By hiding within God’s good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever have accomplished on its own.
Romans 3:23 for all did sin, and are come short of the glory of God --
Proverbs 21:4 (MSG) Arrogance and pride—distinguishing marks in the wicked— are just plain sin.
Ezekiel 18:20 The person who sins is the one who will die. The child will not be punished for the parent’s sins, and the parent will not be punished for the child’s sins. Righteous people will be rewarded for their own righteous behavior, and wicked people will be punished for their own wickedness.
Ezekial 18:24 But when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice and does the same abominations that the wicked person does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, for them he shall die.
Romans 5:12 When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned.
Jude 16 - These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
1 John 5:17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.
1 John 5:18 - We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
1 John 3:9 - No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
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Saturday, June 25, 2022

Addiction Quotes

Quotes About Addictions

  • All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.  W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), A Certain World (1970).
  • As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.  Henry Van Dyke, author (1852-1933).
  • Every clinging addiction I ever had came from a vain attempt to 'fill my cup' with something other than the Spirit of Christ.  Mark Wylie, Young Adult Minister for the University Church of Christ in Denver, CO.
  • For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.  Peter McWilliams.
  • He who is alone with his sin is utterly alone.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, pastor and theologian (1906-1945), Life Together.
  • I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster, or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of death from being a total surprise.  Chuck Palahniuk, Satirist, novelist, b. 1961.
  • I can resist everything except temptation.  Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
  • If you don't play, you can't win. Connecticut Lottery advertisement, paid for by politicians with dollar signs in their eyes.
  • In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves; the prisoner of addiction and the prisoners of envy.  Ivan Illich (b. 1926), Austrian born American educator and priest.
  • Men of intemperate mind never can be free. Their passions forge their fetters.  Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British statesman.
  • Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  François duc de la Rochefoucauld, 17th-century French philosopher.
  • Nothing is stronger than habit. Ovid (43 BC - AD 18).
  • O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive! Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.  Ann Landers.
  • Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.  John W. Gardner, b. 1912, American Educator.
  • Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American Jurist (1841 -1935).
  • Sin never fulfills its promises. It will take you farther than you wanted to go, keep you longer than you wanted to stay, and make you pay more than you could ever afford.  Ken Davis, from Lighten Up.
  • The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.  Thomas Carlyle, 19th-century Scots-English historian, author (1795-1881); Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History, (1840).
  • The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.  Yiddish Proverb.
  • There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.  William James (1842 - 1910), The Principles of Psychology (1890).
  • Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. Benjamin Waterhouse, medical doctor (1754 - 1846).
  • Watch out when you're getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain't in luck.  Joel Chandler Harris, American writer (1848-1908).
  • Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?  Clifford Stoll.
  • You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.  David Ryan.
  • As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else. --MAYA ANGELOU





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1 Timothy 3:3, 8 NASB95 - 3 not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. ... 8 Deacons likewise [must be] men of dignity, not double-tongued, or addicted to much wine or fond of sordid gain,
Titus 1:7 NASB95 - 7 For the overseer must be above reproach as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not addicted to wine, not pugnacious, not fond of sordid gain,

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Monday, March 13, 2023

Conviction Quotes

Quotes About Conviction

  • An indictment is not a conviction. --Howard Coble
  • Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Convictions are prisons. --Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Convictions do not imply reasons. --Margaret Deland
  • To win the war against fear, we must know the true God as He is revealed in the Bible. He works to give us lasting peace. He receives joy, not from condemning us but in rescuing us from the devil. Yes, the Lord will bring conviction to our hearts concerning sin, but it is so He can deliver us from sin's power and consequences. In its place, the Lord works to establish healing, forgiveness and peace. --Francis Frangipane
  • Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason. I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other - my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen. --Martin Luther
  • What convinces is conviction. --Lyndon B. Johnson
  • What matters is your convictions. --Aniekee Tochukwu




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Hebrews 3:14 We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end.
Joshua 14:7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions,
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NET) in that our gospel did not come to you merely in words, but in power and in the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction (surely you recall the character we displayed when we came among you to help you).
Romans 8:1 (NET) There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Ecclesiastes 3:4 (NET) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
2 Timothy 3:16 every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness,
John 16:8 ESV And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
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Sunday, April 09, 2023

Condemnation Quotes

Quotes About Condemnation

  • Never take the comment that you are different as a condemnation, it might be a complement. It might mean that you posses unique qualities that like the most rarest of diamonds is...one of a kind.
  • The father who loves his children will not substitute toys for time, replace commendation with condemnation but will be their teacher not taskmaster.
  • Whenever we assign people to condemnation without mercy because they do not do something the way we think it ought to be done or because we believe their motives are wrong, we pass judgment that only God is qualified to make.
  • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
  • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. --Henry Ward Beecher

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Romans 8:1 (NLT) So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:9 (NLT) And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation.
2 Corinthians 3:9 (NLT) If the old way, which brings condemnation, was glorious, how much more glorious is the new way, which makes us right with God!
Romans 5:18 (NLT) Yes, Adam’s one sin brings condemnation for everyone, but Christ’s one act of righteousness brings a right relationship with God and new life for everyone.
Romans 5:16 (NLT) And the result of God’s gracious gift is very different from the result of that one man’s sin. For Adam’s sin led to condemnation, but God’s free gift leads to our being made right with God, even though we are guilty of many sins.
2 Peter 2:3 In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
James 5:12 But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or by any other oath, but let your “yes” be yes and your “no” be no, so that you may not fall under condemnation.
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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Forgive Quotes

Quotes About Forgiveness

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  • Do not let the shadows of your past darken the doorstep of your future. Forgive and forget. --
  • Forgive before you forget. --
  • Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.  
  • Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. --
  • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. --Paul Boese
  • Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free. Stormie Omartian 
  • Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. Suzanne Somers
  • Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance that a flower leaves upon the heel that crushes it. 
  • Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it. --Mark Twain
  • Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you were the prisoner. Max Lucado
  • Forgiveness of sins is the very heart of Christianity, and yet it is a very dangerous thing to preach. --Martin Luther
  • He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need to be forgiven. George Herbert
  • He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass! Scott Nicholson
  • He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Johann K. Lavater
  • Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy. --Charles Fillmore
  • How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin? John Henry Newman 
  • I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one. Henry Ward Beecher
  • If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. --German proverb
  • If I ever seem to take you for granted, forgive me. --Helen Fitzwalter-Read
  • If we confess our sins, he is faithful & just & will forgive us ur sins & purify us from all unrighteousness. --1John 1:9
  • If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. --Mother Teresa
  • If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. --Glenn Clark
  • If your life is not all you want it to be, it may be that you have some forgiving to do.
  • It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. --Karl Barth
  • It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
  • Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. --Sri Chinmoy
  • Laugh your heart out, dance in the rain, cherish the moment, live, laugh, love, forgive & forget, life's 2 short 2 be, living w/ regrets. --
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong & noble as when it forgoes revenge & dares to forgive injury. --Edwin H Chapin
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.  --E. H. Chapin
  • Not forgiving someone is like you drinking the poison and expecting the other person to die. 
  • Oh forgive us Lord, for so often we seek the things in your hand rather than the things of your heart. 
  • One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody, everything, every night before you go to bed. --Bernard M. Baruch
  • People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
  • Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always. ~ Dan Zadra --
  • The more a man knows, the more he forgives. --Confucius
  • The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. Marianne Williamson 
  • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. --Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian nationalist leader 
  • There is a hard law… When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. Alan Paton
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --Lewis B. Smedes
  • To hold a grudge is hateful, but to be willing to forgive is a beautiful thing.  --Joyce Meyer
  • True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment. David Ridge
  • We are certain there is forgiveness, because there is a gospel, and the very essence of the gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin. --Charles H. Spurgeon
  • When you choose to forgive those who have hurt you, you take away their power. --
  • Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. –ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI
  • Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. --LEWIS B. SMEDES
  • An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. --Mahatma Gandhi





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Matthew 18:21-22 At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.
Luke 5:21, 24 NLT - 21 But the Pharisees and teachers of religious law said to themselves, "Who does he think he is? That's blasphemy! Only God can forgive sins!" ... 24 So I will prove to you that the Son of Man has the authority on earth to forgive sins." Then Jesus turned to the paralyzed man and said, "Stand up, pick up your mat, and go home!"
Luke 6:37 NLT - 37 "Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn others, or it will all come back against you. Forgive others, and you will be forgiven.
Luke 11:4 NLT - 4 and forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us. And don't let us yield to temptation."
Luke 17:3-4 NLT - 3 So watch yourselves! "If another believer sins, rebuke that person; then if there is repentance, forgive. 4 Even if that person wrongs you seven times a day and each time turns again and asks forgiveness, you must forgive."
Luke 23:34 NLT - 34 Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing." And the soldiers gambled for his clothes by throwing dice.
Colossians 1:14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 6:12 - and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:14-15 - For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Acts 2:38 “Repent,” Peter said to them, “and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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Thursday, July 13, 2023

Vulnerable Quotes

Quotes About Being Vulnerable or Vulnerability

  • The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed. --ERNEST HEMINGWAY  
  • Caring is sometimes allowing ourselves to be vulnerable towards hidden hurts in the pleasure of caring....
  • Give but don't feel the need to be abused. Love but don't allow your heart to be misused. Trust, but don't be naive. Listen to others, but don't lose your voice.
  • Love is vulnerability. Happiness is vulnerability. The risk of being vulnerable is the price of opening yourself to beauty and opportunity. Being vulnerable is not about showing the parts of you that are polished; it's about revealing the unpolished parts you would rather keep hidden from the world. It's about looking out into the world with an honest, open heart and saying, This is me. Take me or leave me.
  • Terror and tragedy have made us more aware of our vulnerabilities and mortality ... We're living through a time of testing and consequence, and pray that our wisdom and will are equal to the work before us. Condoleeza Rice 
  • There is not one marriage in today's culture that is not vulnerable. Why? Because we've allowed the culture to seep into our souls. ... Clearly we can no longer pattern our marriages after the people around us -- if we ever could. Not only does the world not know how to divorce-proof its marriages, it is well on the way to making broken relationships the norm! Dr. Fred Lowery
  • To be is to be vulnerable. --Norman O. Brown
  • Love makes me feel vulnerable. --Joshua Radin
  • To love is to be vulnerable...  --C. S. Lewis
  • To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • Silence makes me feel vulnerable. --Eric Lange
  • I love, therefore I am vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • To love at all is to be vulnerable. --C. S. Lewis
  • When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. --Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. --Joyce Brothers
  • Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. --Neil Gaiman
  • When believers are living in unconfessed sin, they are vulnerable to the assaults of Satan. ‌--R. C. Sproul
  • God is impassible in the sense that he sustains no “passion,” no emotion, that makes him vulnerable from the outside, over which he has no control, or which he has not foreseen. ‌--D. A. Carson
  • It matters because without maturity Christians are very, very vulnerable to all kinds of trickery that may well take them a long way away from where they ought to be.‌ --N. T. Wright









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2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who work their way into people’s homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires.
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Sunday, September 24, 2023

Doubt Quotes

Quotes About Doubt

  • If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. --RENÉ DESCARTES
  • When in doubt tell the truth. --Mark Twain
  • Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us. --J. C. Ryle
  • I don't so much pray that my death will be without pain, but that it will be without doubt. --John Piper
  • We are raising a generation on the spiritual junk food of religious videos, movies, youth entertainment, and comic book paraphrases of the Bible. The Word of God is being rewritten, watered down, illustrated, and dramatized in order to cater to the taste of the carnal mind. That only leads further into the wilderness of doubt and confusion. --Dave Hunt
  • Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. --Hosea Ballou, American Clergyman (1771-  )
  • I don't so much pray that my death will be without pain, but that it will be without doubt. --John Piper
  • For some reason, we think of doubt and worry as "small" sins. But when a Christian displays unbelief...or an inability to cope with life, he is saying to the world, "My God cannot be trusted," and that kind of disrespect makes one guilty of a fundamental error, the heinous sin of dishonoring God. That is no small sin. --John MacArthur
  • Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us. --J. C. Ryle
  • Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; it creates hesitancy, despondency, despair. Its progress is the decay of comfort, the death of peace. "Believe!" is the word which speaks life into a man, but doubt nails down his coffin. --Charles Spurgeon
Suzy Kassem is an American writer of Egyptian parentage whose insightful work often reflects themes of self-discovery and empowerment. In this quote, she underlines the destructive power of self-doubt and points out that the fear of failing can be more paralyzing than any actual setback. Often, it is our own hesitation that stifles our potential; it’s so easy to talk ourselves out of something scary or new with an unknown outcome. Kassem reminds us that although failure is difficult, it can also impart important lessons and growth — certainly more than we get out of never trying at all.


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When a person fails – often more than once while attempting to achieve the same goal – it is hard to see the possibilities that await them. And most of the time, they simply give up. But it’s not that the possibility wasn’t there; it’s that the person stopped before they reached the possibility. Possibilities are tough to get to because the reward that comes with them is so great. Get through the challenges and see the reward that is coming with your possibility!



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Mark 9:24 (MSG) No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the father cried, “Then I believe. Help me with my doubts!”
Romans 8:38 For I am convinced [and continue to be convinced—beyond any doubt] that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers,
Acts 2:36 "Therefore, let all the people of Israel understand beyond a doubt that God made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Messiah!"
Matthew 14:31 Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”
2 Peter 1:19 Therefore we regard the message of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp that is shining in a gloomy place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
1 Corinthians 2:3 And I was with you without strength, in fear and in doubt.
James 1:6 (NIV) But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
Mark 11:23 (NIV) “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
Jude 1:22 (NIV) Be merciful to those who doubt;
Romans 14:23 (NIV) But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Proverbs 3:5-8 ESV  Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Matthew 21:21 ESV And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
Matthew 14:31 ESV Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
James 1:6 - But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.
Jude 22 - And have mercy on those who doubt;
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Kevin Rayner


Thursday, July 14, 2022

Death Quotes

Quotes About Death / Dying
  • [Jesus] left because of you. He laid his security down with his hammer. ... Since he could bear your sins more easily than he could bear the thought of your hopelessness, he chose to leave. It wasn't easy. Leaving the carpentry shop never has been. -- Max Lucado
  • [When] Jesus Himself fasted, He was not fasting to repent or to bring His desires under control, of course, but to demonstrate His absolute dependence upon His Father. Peter C. Moore
  • A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • All effective fathers learn the importance of a wise and flexible response to their children's calls for attention. No busy signals here. No "hold" button. -- Gordon McDonald
  • As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci
  • But in this world, nothing can be said to be sure, except death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin
  • Death is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. Seneca
  • Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. Helen Keller (both blind and deaf from an infant)
  • Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. Norman Cousins 
  • Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From a headstone in Ireland
  • Death, for the faithful, is the door for a greater reality of life. Beth Moore
  • Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Emerson
  • Don't worry if your work is hard and your rewards are few. Remember the mighty oak was once a nut like you. Drive-in banking was invented so cars could go in and see their real owners. Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing. Randolph S. Bourne (1886-1918) American Writer
  • Entrance into heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion. Benjamin Whichcote
  • Goodness is the only investment that never fails. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill
  • If you had the cure to cancer wouldn’t you share it? … You have the cure to death … get out there and share it. Kirk Cameron
  • In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); American statesman and scientist
  • Jesus felt compassion toward the grieving friends and family, but toward death, Jesus felt the passion of anger. Brian Zahnd
  • Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. ~ Robert Schuller
  • Not the owner of many possessions will you be right to call happy: he more rightly deserves the name of happy who knows how to use the Gods' gifts wisely and to put up with rough poverty, and who fears dishonor more than death.  Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet 
  • The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do. Sequichie Comingdeer
  • The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. Arthur Schopenhauer
  • What happens if you're scared half to death TWICE?  Woody Paige
  • When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-- ourselves. Eda LeShan
  • When you are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. Duffy Daugherty
  • Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things. Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro (Claiming your Place at the Fire)
  • The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence. --RALPH WALDO EMERSON
  • The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. --MITCH ALBOM




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Revelation 21:4 ESV He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Romans 14:8 ESV For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
Luke 23:43 ESV And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
John 3:16 ESV “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 ESV For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1 John 3:14 NLT - 14 If we love our Christian brothers and sisters, it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead.
1 John 5:16-17 NLT - 16 If you see a Christian brother or sister sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it. 17 All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death.



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