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I cannot read God's mind, however I can read God's Word.


R.C. Sproul

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I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away(Matthew 24:35 NIV).
EUGINIA HERLIHY The word of God surpasses earthly orders.
JAMES CLAVELL When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
JAMES HUDSON TAYLOR The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
EDWARD O. WILSON I can almost lip-read him but cannot hear.
TALGAT MUSABAYEV however, i can read hers- she'll be waiting to ambush you in class.
STEPHENIE MEYER The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Read, read, read. That's all I can say.
CAROLYN KEENE Gods strategy is putting pictures in our mind
SUNDAY ADELAJA I can read in red.
I can read in blue.
I can read in pickle color too.
DR. SEUSS If I can not influence the gods, I shall move all hell.
VIRGIL The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imag...
THEODOR REIK Read, mediate and speak the word of God into your mind, soul and spirit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities
CHINESE PROVERBS No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
NOAH PORTER No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
THOMAS HARDY They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN Read, re-read!
Every word you read is a food for thy soul!
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't eve...
JOANNE HARRIS Be Gods and make Gods.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Gods don't live in the sky; they live in the mind.
KEVIN D. BLACKMON Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods Tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES The word of God becomes transformational when pictures of what we read are formed in the mind
SUNDAY ADELAJA The word of God becomes transformational when pictures of what we read are formed in our mind
SUNDAY ADELAJA New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... ...
THERESA REBECK There is an enormous redundancy in every well-written book. With a well-written book I only read the...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I do not have much time for relaxation, but when I can, I like to read.
CLAUDIO RANIERI I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.
MARK ROBERTS Thy word O God is the Truth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A Christian who rebels against God’s Word is not a Christian at all
FRITZ CHERY I read this thing and it blew my mind.
BILL LUEDERS I am Envy. I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can r...
HENRY R. LUCE There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can...
HENRY R. LUCE Who hearkens to the gods, the gods give ear.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.
TERRY PRATCHETT When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass...
KATIE WAITMAN Keep building your word-power. Read, read, read. That way you will be able to say what you really fe...
VIKRANT PARSAI If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
EURIPIDES I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Midd...
DAVID EDDINGS I grow, I prosper;Now, gods, stand up for bastards!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 ...
CALL BAIN I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.
EMMA ROBERTS I read the Bible and it opened my heart and mind.
ABDUR RAHMAN I haven't read a word of Proust. And I listen obsessively to sports radio.
DAVID GRANN I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read u...
TAYLOR SWIFT A choice from the gods is as useless as the gods themselves!
KRATOS - GOD OF WAR Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his wo...
DAVID BOWIE I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion.
THEMISTOCLES Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.
S. E. HINTON Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm, and yet will make Gods by dozens.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Emerson has said, "When half-gods go, the gods arrive." That is a very doubtful maxim. Better say, "...
C.S. LEWIS I'm not well-read, but when I read, I read well.
KURT COBAIN I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well
KURT COBAIN If I read the word 'problematize' one more time, I'm going to vomit.
GLORIA STEINEM Yeah, I can read music and I know the names of chords.
DAVE NAVARRO Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god t...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Shakes his ambroisal curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The son of Saturn gave The nod with his dark brows. The ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign On...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.
BISHOP REGINALD HEBER There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the ...
J. MILTON HAYES Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup an...
ROBERT GREENE Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpr...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above! Beneath the slidi...
JOHN DRYDEN With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems...
JOHN DRYDEN Nature's self's thy Ganymede.
ABRAHAM COWLEY Never, believe me, Appear the Immortals, Never alone.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we? [Lat., O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?]
CICERO (MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO) Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four; Stella's wit ...
CALLIMACHUS The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er. '...
CALLIMACHUS And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana o...
BIBLE Speak of the gods as they are.
WALTER BAGEHOT The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like th...
WALTER BAGEHOT Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Say, Bacchus, why so placid? What can there be In commune held by Pallas and by thee? Her ple...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR I, Phoebus, sang those songs that gained so much renown I, Phoebus, sang them; Homer only wrote th...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR War is the father of us all, King of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slave...
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the...
CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS) Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
DIMEBAG DARRELL It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. Bu...
C.S. LEWIS We are making gods out of global celebrities.
JOAN SMITH Yet verily these issues lie on the lap of the gods.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") The ox-eyes awful Juno.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Who can foretell for what high cause / This darling of the Gods was born?
ANDREW MARVELL Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had ...
MICKEY ROONEY As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for
JOSH BILLINGS Superstition brings the gods into even the smallest matters
TITUS LIVY God is not a granter of wishes. God is a ruthless bitch.
CHERYL STRAYED The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Those who want fewer things are nearest to the gods
SOCRATES Do not take liberties with the gods, or weary them
CONFUCIUS
"The voice is certainly important and you can hear if it's beautiful or not, it's the gods who ...
CECILIA BARTOLI Ask the gods nothing excessive.
AESCHYLUS Gods and Monsters
JAMES WHALE Who is to say that prayers have any effect? On the other hand, who is to say they don't? I picture t...
MARGARET ATWOOD Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Whom the gods love die young, that’s why only the gods love war.
VIKRANT PARSAI

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