Richard Stearns Quotes

#1. In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

Octavia E. Butler

#2. We have not been promised rescue from this world; we have been commanded to go and take back this world. The Great Commission is Jesus' call to storm the gates of hell and to liberate his children, establishing his kingdom.

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#3. Yooralla is a people pleaser with a very powerful PR machine.

Stella Young

#4. It is better to have a short meaningful life than to have a long meaningless one.

Alvin Conway

#5. Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#6. It's not what you believe that counts; it's what you believe enough to do.

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#7. A church that's lost it's voice for justice is a church that's lost it's relevance in the world.

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#8. I'm dreaming that I am awake.

Margaret Atwood

#9. Don't fail to do something just because you can't do everything

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#10. If we truly love God, we will express it by loving our neighbors, and when we truly love our neighbors, it expresses our love for God.

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#11. I am lost in your eyes like a broken wings bird.

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

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#13. But I want to be clear that this does not mean we are saved by piling up enough good works to satisfy God. No, it means that any authentic and genuine commitment to Christ will be accompanied by demonstrable evidence of a transformed life.

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#14. Even a small match
lit in a place of total
darkness gives off a
blinding light.

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#15. is a misunderstanding we often have

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#16. What if there are children who will suffer somehow because I failed to obey God? What if my cowardice costs even one child somewhere in the world his or her life?

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#17. A lot of equipment can get in the way of the connection with food, with touching and feeling.

Alice Waters

#18. To be a disciple means forsaking everything to follow Jesus, unconditionally, putting our lives completely in His hands. When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.

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#19. The idea behind The Hole in Our Gospel is quite simple. It's basically the belief that being a Christian, or a follower of Jesus Christ, requires much more than just having a personal and transforming relationship with God. It also entails a public and transforming relationship with the world.

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#20. In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

Nikolai Gogol

#21. I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation ... I believe that our children and their children, 40 or 50 years from now, are going to ask me, what did you do while 40 million children became orphans in Africa?

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#22. When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Gary Weiss

#23. He felt some visceral connection between what was happening on the screen and his own dreams and subconscious, and with his ongoing efforts to figure out the world in which he lived. And

Anne Rice

#24. The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Robert Kiyosaki

#25. Never let what you don't know stop you from doing what you do know.

Orrin Woodward

#26. Saint Francis of Assisi understood the power of faith put into action to change the human heart, for it was he who said, "Preach the gospel always; when necessary use words." We had not yet spoken a word in their language, but the village elders had already "heard" the gospel.

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#27. God's love was intended to be demonstrated, not dictated.

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#28. Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Philip Emeagwali

#29. Every act of kindness, each moment spent in prayer, and every expression of love in the name of Christ pierces the heart of the enemy and sends him into retreat. These are the gentle weapons of the kingdom.

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#30. What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

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#31. I've never done anything for money, and that is why I got money. When you do stuff for money, you never get money.

Roseanne Barr

#32. Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

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#33. it also signified the coming of God's kingdom on earth. This

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#34. God never asks us to give what we do not have ... But he cannot use what we will not give.

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#35. Look at that sea, girls
all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

#36. Love always requires tangible expression. It needs hands and feet.

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#37. We must move beyond an anemic view of our faith as something only personal and private, with no public dimension, and instead see it as the source of power that can change the world.

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#38. Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.

Louise Hay

#39. To even be Christians, we must first believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. That in itself is no small idea. If it is true, it changes everything because if Christ is God, then all that he said and did is deeply significant to how we live our lives. So we believe. But God expects more.

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