Remembering God Quotes

• If God is for us, who can be against us?

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  Paul the Apostle

  Bible   God   Christian  

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• Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

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  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual   Gratitude   Self  

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

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  N. T. Wright

  Humble   Remembering God   Worship  

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.

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  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children   Meditation   Dollars  

  1009

• He whose wealth or children distract him from remembering God is lost; but the one who remembers God experiences delights sweeter than the pleasure of food and drink.

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  Ibn Ata Allah

  Children   Cooking   Remembering God  

  3705

• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

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  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake   Book   Character  

  4760

• The essence of life is in remembering God.

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  Kabir

  Essence   Remembering God   Life Is  

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