When we violate our conscience by compromising our integrity, we put our reputation at risk. We also become our own advocate because we step outside the boundaries of God's good, pleasing, and perfect will. But when we obey God, we come under the umbrella of His protective authority. He is our Advocate. And it's His reputation that is at stake. If we don't give the Enemy a foothold, God won't let him touch a hair on our head.
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Related 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha... MARISSA MEYER We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit SUNDAY ADELAJA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We only care about our faults when we realize them. DANIEL MELGAçO If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL How can we love a holy God? The simplest answer I can give to this vital question is that we can’t... R.C. SPROUL We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God ... BROTHER YUN The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active dis... FOPPE VANDER ZWAAG The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters. JOSE MOURINHO The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency. DAVID PETRAEUS It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon... JOSIAH STAMP We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world. ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS We don't want to feel helpless, so we use fear, anger, addiction, or unbridled sexuality to block ou... DAVID F. ALLEN Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ... DONALD O. SOPER God is the name we give our conscience. NADER SHUREIH When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES Feast of Mark the Evangelist Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is inst... A. W. TOZER With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go fo... JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne a... OSWALD CHAMBERS When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everythin... MICHAEL HUFFINGTON The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL And when I saw you kissing that girl My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered And ... KATE NASH We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God SOTONYE ANGA As the children of God, we think of Him as a perfect, almighty, loving, caring and forgiving persona... VINKO VRBANIC Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our... A. W. TOZER we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER If we fix our eyes on Jesus Christ, He will perfect our faith in God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and our ability to serve and love and laugh ... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS God gives us His spirit , while we give Him our bodies by fully submitting to Him and doing His will SUNDAY ADELAJA Inner strength of our character can never be taken away from us. If we focus on our character, our r... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio... MARTIN LUTHER Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become. CRAIG GROESCHEL A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r... PAULO COELHO By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying i... ALVEDA KING The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomi... RICK PERRY When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wh... JUDITH PLASKOW If we claim to know God, let’s reveal Him. If we say we are his servants, let’s carry Him SUNDAY ADELAJA When we face impossible odds, let us not look at the size of our problem; let us look at the size of... DILLON BURROUGHS When we proclaim the truth of God by faith, we also confirm it by our actions SUNDAY ADELAJA If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating ... CHARLES STANLEY The one use of the Bible is to make us look at Jesus, that through Him we might know His Father and ... GEORGE MACDONALD We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. BEN SWEETLAND If our foundation is on God,then our burden becomes His and we sail through smoothly. LATIKA TEOTIA Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER God does not begin by asking our ability, but more of our availability. When we prove our dependabil... NEAL A. MAXWELL Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now." "Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur... LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ... GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN Surrender means, by definition, giving up attachment to results. When we surrender to God, we let go... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. SAMUEL ADAMS Our World is run mental disorderly! MAURICE SPEES How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then ... GEORGE MULLER If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating ... CHARLES STANLEY I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game... ERWIN MCMANUS [From our side] our relation to God is unrighteous. Secretly we are ourselves the masters in this re... KARL BARTH We will fail God, we will fail our family, and our family might fail us at times, but God never fail... NICK VUJICIC Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... DEYTH BANGER It is when we can still our own mind and control our own emotions that we master our true selves. At... KAREMA MCGHEE Life is a tightrope with God at the end. If we walk with our eyes down, looking at what is happenin... KRIS LEIGH SCHOTT Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is t... JOSEPH E. MCCABE Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavour Fellowship, 1951 We, and all things, ex... LILY DOUGALL You and I were put on this earth to serve something greater than our narrow interests. When our focu... NICK VUJICIC The point of this good-day-bad-day comparison is this: Regardless of our performance, we are always ... JERRY BRIDGES Feast of All Saints O Lord! how happy should we be, If we could leave our cares to Thee, If we ... JOSEPH ANSTICE Discussing God is not the best use of our energy. If we touch the Holy Spirit, we touch God not as a... THICH NHAT HANH When we cannot find joy in our circumstances, we can find joy in God who is unchanged and unchanging... KATIE DAVIS MAJORS America's culture is also defined by the fact that we are a religious people. We recognize our God n... MITT ROMNEY When all our efforts have come to nothing, we naturally tend to doubt not just ourselves, but also w... BILL MOYERS For years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get ... ANNE GRAHAM By being hesitant to voice the truth for fear of upsetting others, we make those others our masters ... SHAFEEQ QURESHI He may effect us directly by His Spirit, with the force of a thunderbolt, or He may choose to woo us... KENNETH L. PIKE While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our com... JONATHAN SACKS I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER
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