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Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.


H. R. Haweis

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SERGE BENHAYON Now we want (H&R) Block to make public the right numbers.
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JAMES MCALEXANDER Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they su...
H. R. HAWEIS All good government must begin at home.
H. R. HAWEIS Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.
H. R. HAWEIS Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
ALBERT CAMUS He's bowling 150km/h most balls. There's a very small margin for error there.
RICKY PONTING Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI It's an attempt to protect the little guy from himself. H&R Block is helping people become first-tim...
ALEXANDER JR It's an attempt to protect the little guy from himself. H&R Block is helping people become first-tim...
ALEXANDER PARIS JR The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things...
ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Instead of complaining that God had hidden Himself, you will give Him thanks for not having revealed...
BLAISE PASCAL It was a regrettable incident and is contrary to any of our established procedures at H&R Block. Con...
DENISE SPOSATO You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN That's a hard shot to make. You can win a lot of games in H-O-R-S-E if you can make that shot consis...
GEORGE NESSMAN Personally, I think doing taxes is a big pain in the tushy, so I have them done at Preparation H & R...
KAREN LEE You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN God' is an excuse to justify hate.
ANONYMOUS From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN My savior has a first name. It's J-E-S-U-S. My savior has a second name. It's C-H-R-I-S-T,
JOHN SCHWARTZ Periods of time belong to Satan but eternity belongs to God.
JAIME CONTRERAS And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN The machines do not solve problems with greater insight than men do, only faster. Only faster!
ISAAC ASIMOV For modern cosmology God cannot be a working hypothesis because God is not given to us in the observ...
R. JOSEPH HOFFMANN God is not subject to the dimension of time. He dwells in eternity.
RAY COMFORT An agnostic lay dying. He called his weeping child to his bedside and asked her to read to him the o...
UNKNOWN The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) He thought much but said little.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself...
KARL BARTH M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i...
H. L. WAYLAND The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
ERIC HOFFER satan reasons likes a man, but god thinks of eternity
RAYAN BLACK HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
KEN BLANCHARD HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose.
KEN BLANCHARD An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A.W. TOZER My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the...
THOMAS GOODWIN I am glad H&R Block says that revealing social security numbers is against its policy. The question ...
ANDREW JAQUITH Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
FRIEDRICH ENGELS Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence
FRIEDRICH ENGELS He wants nothing of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not b...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS We plant, God grows"

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. ALAN WOODS Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN We achieved a solid gross margin of 54 percent for the full year and reduced our R&D expenditure to ...
SVEN LOFQUIST Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE God will justify only those who multiply what has been entrusted to them
SUNDAY ADELAJA Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi...
TAMMY WYNETTE Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN Life is a paradiddle...

R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is t...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eterni...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
AFRICAN PROVERB The North remembers.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to fi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It was nice for our pitchers to be able to breathe, and give them more margin of error to work with.
JACQUE JONES Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY He had no faintest conception till that very hour of how they would look, and even doubted their exi...
C.S. LEWIS destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to e...
C.S. LEWIS And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right -...
S. T. JOSHI They'll go to H&R Block at the beginning of April and they haven't planned over the year for the ded...
JOHN SHERMAN He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
POPE JOHN XXII a body betrayed
a heart destroyed
a mind in confusion
and yet a woman
is capable...
R.H. SIN The monster who played God can justify his actions; sometimes he possibly believes he was an angel o...
DOLORES STASIENKO God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begin...
SOJOURNER TRUTH The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderwe...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic m...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak.
INDONESIA123 MOTHERS
Measuring
Out
Their
Highest
Effo...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolu...
ASSATA SHAKUR Bill nodded, but he didn’t look hopeful. “The H-H-Himalayans had a rih-hi-hitual to g-get rih-ri...
STEPHEN KING Things to remember:
1) The worth of character;
MARSHALL FIELD God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...
C. S. LEWIS God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no su...
C.S. LEWIS [Amy Carmichael's] great longing was to have a "single eye" for the glory of God. Whatever might blu...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Jesus said, 'Enter into My rest' and let God do what He does best
R. ALAN WOODS They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humili...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER The light was so dim that Jaime could scarcely see her, though they stood a scant few feet apart. 'I...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Faith is stronger than so-called reason.
HERMANN HESSE

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GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and d...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villa...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feel...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could wri...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, an...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separate...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for ...
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giant...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start wit...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share t...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and T...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN I never liked Gandalf the White as much as Gandalf the Grey, and I never liked him coming back. I th...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scar...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Of course it's not enough to be a good man to be an effective ruler and it never has been.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN If your heart is full, you don't feel that hungry.
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