Top 32 Balaam's Quotes
#1. Granted, God is sovereign and can speak as he pleases - through a proof text, a poem, or Balaam's donkey. But we do not regularly seek out donkeys to tell us how to live.
Craig S. Keener
#2. Balaam's ass is the patron saint of apologists. Madness, as we shall see, is an appropriate term for the unreality of unbelief.
Os Guinness
#3. A man's personality is matured only when he appropriates the truth, whether it is spoken by Balaam's ass or a sniggering wag or an apostle or an angel.
Soren Kierkegaard
#4. [On refusing to be silenced:] I do not pretend to be John the Baptist rebuking the Pharisees. I do not claim to be Nathan upbraiding David. I aspire only to be Balaam's ass, castigating his master.
Katharina Zell
#5. In today's society, Christians have a bad rap for things like holding picketing signs, screaming mantras of hate, and bombing abortion clinics. Somehow, I don't think that's showing love.
Anna M. Aquino
#6. And Balaam answered and said, ... If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more." - Spiritual
Ellen G. White
#7. Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul; it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Michel De Montaigne
#8. 90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.
Hideo Kojima
#9. Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you.
Anna M. Aquino
#10. God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
Rich Mullins
#11. Nature allows one kind to kill another, it's part of the law ... you wonder if man might not be the most savage of all creatures. He's among the few that preys on nearly every other being, that constantly preys on his own species.
Leonard Budgell
#14. I believe that forgiveness is a processes. You might be able to release some offenses right away, but some offenses hurt deeper. You have to choose to let go and let God.
Anna M. Aquino
#15. To a social animal, trust is like lubrication. It reduces friction and creates conditions much more conducive to performance,
Simon Sinek
#16. If your temper is violent towards your brothers and sisters in the Lord, whose kingdom are you trying to build?
Anna M. Aquino
#17. The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.
Al D'Amato
#18. In the Bible, God uses brothel owners, pagan kings, murderers and mercenaries as instruments of good; at one point God even speaks to a guy named Balaam through his donkey.
Shane Claiborne
#19. Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.
Anna M. Aquino
#21. And a pretty wife involves a great deal of anxiety.
Anton Chekhov
#22. Sometimes love is pastel. Sometimes love is black. And sometimes love is fiery red and you feel as if you are going to burn in the flames.
Chloe Thurlow
#23. Word of advice, sister mine. If you want to keep your papers private, don't write 'Private' on the cover. It set the mater right off. It was all I could do to stop her sniffing around like some great sniffing thing.
Lauren Willig
#24. In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.
Joseph Butler
#25. We've become very good in our churches today at faking our concern when really we couldn't care less about the people around us.
Anna M. Aquino
#26. In order to get some help in your love walk, all you have to do is ask God to let you see these people through His eyes.
Anna M. Aquino
#27. Having true compassion for people isn't about the words that are spoken and the actions that are done. Having true compassion is an attitude from the heart that can't be faked.
Anna M. Aquino
#28. Elemental. Love is an element, Karou remembered from a long, long time ago, and she felt like she was floating.
Laini Taylor
#29. This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
Joseph Butler
#30. We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation the fields and hills of Ireland for 700 years.
James Larkin
#31. I don't hope," he answered, eyes on her. "I never hope. I just live in gratitude for what comes.
Nicole Mones
#32. The miraculous is always happening, even though we forget it or even when our faith is too small to trust God for miracles or even when we don't see the miracles occurring. God is always still at work, and God will always provide for us.
Louie Giglio
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