The giver knows God, the forgiver loves God.
Royalton Ambrose
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GURU GOBIND SINGH Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard ...
LOIS LOWRY Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone one who loves is born of God an...
ANONYMOUS God really loves me. God really loves me.
LUCY PIZARRO Hating yourself is like hating what God loves. God loves you, so love yourself and love what God lov...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God lo...
BIBLE God knows Everyone. God knows Everything. God knows everything about everyone.
APURVA GAGLANI God loveth a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
BIBLE If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show yo...
HENRY WARD BEECHER You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God...
BOB DYLAN There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking...
THOMAS PAINE Thank God that the Bible cannot possibly be the word of God
DONALD MORGAN I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the w...
ELVIS PRESLEY They told tales as they sat at their work, and every one related what wonderful things he had seen o...
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE When you GIVE under “compulsion” or “Grudgingly” you are giving under the LAW of giving and ...
JOHN PAUL WARREN It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless.
LOIS LOWRY His thoughts seemed to be elsewhere, and his eyes were very troubled.
LOIS LOWRY God be thy comfort.
God loves you.
God will take care for you.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
YOLANDA ADAMS Jesus is very much alive and well in the twenty-first century. Jesus is revealed in the lives and wo...
NIK RIPKEN THE INSANITY OF GOD Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc...
CHARLES STUDD God knows who you are! God knows why you are here! Don’t live a different you! Don't disappoint Go...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sink the Bible to the bottom of the sea, and man's obligation to God would be unchanged. He would ha...
HENRY WARD BEECHER If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE The Lord God, the Giver of peace, has granted His Grace, I am rid of pain, sin and disease.
GURU NANAK Everything is 5 elements. Everyone is only One. There is no Second. So God knows Everything. And God...
APURVA GAGLANI God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.
HENRY B. EYRING He knows all my thoughts.
He knows all I’ve ever done
and He loves me all the same. KAMAND KOJOURI The Lord loves a cheerful giver. He also accepts from a grouch.
UNKNOWN The eyes see what the heart loves. If the heart loves God and is single in this devotion, then the e...
WARREN WIERSBE Whoever loves God, pray for purity.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The God knows when to smile.
EURIPIDES Becuse God loves us, but the devil takes an interest.
JENNIFER DONNELLY The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Hims...
DALLAS WILLARD In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. Th...
FULTON OURSLER It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes
THOMAS PAINE Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Bible is the word of God and his word is life itself.
PHIL BROWN It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a televi...
JIM BAKKER But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely,...
JOHN WYNDHAM When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key...
WOODROW T. WILSON God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides...
WILLIAM COWPER It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
JOHN BARTH The Bible is real clear that homosexuality is an abomination to God. So to put a homosexual on the s...
TOM LAWSON Here at Bethel, we believe we're not blessed unless we bless others. The Bible states, 'For God so l...
DONALD BAILEY [The Bible is] absolutely clear that God created human beings as male and female.
DON HORROCKS I helped raise mission teams to go to Asia and introduce God and the Bible to different parts of tha...
LARRY HENDERSON God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
LEO STRAUSS But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
LEO STRAUSS God knows the end from the beginning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA God made man because he loves stories
YIDDISH PROVERB Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.
SAINT TERESA God always knows the most excellent path
SUNDAY ADELAJA God and the U.S. government only knows.
JAMAL LEWIS The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
SADHU VASWANI The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
G.K. CHESTERTON Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON God knows no distance
CHARLESZETTA WADDLES Those that God loves, do not live long.
GEORGE HERBERT Person who loves God can not hate humans.
ANUJ SOMANY Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The beautiful are never desolate;
But some one alway loves them--God or man.
If man abandons, ...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY There is a God in disguise. Thank you to God, and I was waiting for the worst. I know that God knows...
GIRLENE SOARES All loves should be simply stepping stones to the love of God
PLATO ...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the worl...
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi...
J. I. PACKER Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life spring...
JOHANN ARNDT God does not want us to take all the credit because God knows that pride comes before the fall
SUNDAY ADELAJA God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
FRIEDRICH KLOPSTOCK God loves everyone, but probably prefers "fruit of the Spirit" over "religious nuts!".
UNKNOWN And God knows the ones we don't know about.
ARMANDO GUTIERREZ Whoever knows God, shall depart from the wrong way.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
THOMAS A KEMPIS He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver
THOMAS KEMPIS Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ...
HOPE MIRRLEES To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dre...
TIM LAHAYE Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Chesh...
JULIAN HUXLEY When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to...
FULTON J. SHEEN God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS AESCHYLUS God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS When God loves you, what can be better than that?
ARETHA FRANKLIN God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.
RALPH HODGSON A Man who loves God honestly will never have enemy
JOSEPH BOAZ God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
AESCHYLUS God is a good worker but loves to be helped
BASQUE PROVERB God knows when you need what.
MAHRUKH But, God knows best, I concluded.
ANNE BRONTë God knows, we don't want prayer.
OLIVER NORTH The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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