Top 36 Philip Gulley Quotes
#1. I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.
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#2. When love takes you by the hand and leaves you better, that is home. That's the place to stake your claim and build your life.
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#3. Write letters to your grandmother. She will love it. And leave you money in her will.
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#4. There's danger in thinking joy is a matter of location. If we can't find joy where we are, we probably won't find it anywhere.
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#5. When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.
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#6. We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.
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#8. The more I work on loving Jesus, the easier it becomes to love my family. Maybe it's really a matter of putting first things first. When we love the way of Jesus first, we're then sufficiently equipped to love our families.
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#10. We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.
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#11. People feel guilty enough at funerals without having more guilt heaped on. I would prefer a bighearted preacher giving my eulogy, someone inclined to widen heaven's doors. I don't want to leave folks wondering whether I made it.
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#12. But we have to get our thrills somewhere. Some men have a weakness for fast women. I have a soft spot for eighty-year-old heretics who buy me pancakes and root beer.
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#13. Many false claims are made about God. They exact a heavy toll on people who believe every utterance from the pulpit must surely be the gospel truth.
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#14. Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.
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#15. Wrinkled women lifting their faces, chasing their youth.
Fat men sucking in bellies.
Poor folks putting on airs.
Sinners acting like saints.
All of us keeping pace with our companions, stepping lively in this dance of deceit.
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#16. A New World. A world where God has set up housekeeping, where God will live right with us, and we with Him. He'll wipe the tears from our eyes, and death will die. No more crying, no more sorrow, no more pain, no more.
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#17. Here's a good test to know whether or not truth-telling springs from love. Truth will not only pain those who hear it; it will pain those who speak it. If we don't love someone, it won't hurt at all to speak truth. We'll tell them what we think with no regard for their feelings. If
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#18. Reality has a long history of not altering itself to make us happy or comfortable.
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#19. Instead of viewing God as one who helps me accomplish my purposes, it is now my joy to help God accomplish the divine purpose - seeking the best for others and seeking the growth of the beloved, which is to say everyone.
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#20. Oddity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What one person rejects as lunacy, another reveres as truth.
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#21. Sometimes what we think we need isn't what we need at all, and what gets thrown in for good measure is that which fills our hearts.
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#22. God is love. When people claim to speak for God, there should be love in their words.
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#23. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.
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#24. There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.
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#25. There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.
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#26. In the end ... Stand where we feel led. Stand straight, stand tall, and try to remember that other folks might be led to stand elsewhere.
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#27. We don't need to be beautiful for Christ to take us in. He is equally at home when we're broken-down and dirty.
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#28. Thus are the changes wrought in a man's life - that courage is treasured more than comfort and, in that choice, victory is gained.
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#29. Fear can keep you up all night, but faith makes one fine pillow.
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#30. The leaves of our blessed lives fall to the ground and if we're wise like my grandfather, we gather them in a pile and keep them safe lest the winds of forgetfulness blow them away.
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#31. That was the problem with religion. You no sooner made up your mind about something than you had to change it.
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#32. Legacies are hard to come by, after all. And if you have one going, you ought to do what you can to keep it alive.
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#33. I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.
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#34. Love, even that love which is imagined, is sometimes all we have to get us through.
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#35. This is how foreign grace was to her, that when she heard it she mistook it for heresy. There are some people, I am sorry to say, who wouldn't recognize grace if it stood at their door wearing a name tag.
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#36. I can only make one person happy each day.
Today is not your day.
Tomorrow doesn't look good, either.
- Frank the 70 year old secretary, chapter 9
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