Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by their own rules cannot make that sacrifice. They are the steady adherents of (global) conflict because they are forever fighting both themselves and others to do whatever they think that they want to do.
Criss JamiStichwörter: love compassion peace god self-sacrifice selflessness humility bible selfishness subjectivity rules conflict fighting commandments sacrifice laws apologetics consideration dispute objectivity
From my childhood I had heard read, and read the Bible myself. Morning and evening the sacred volume was opened and prayers were said. The Bible was my first history, the Jews were the first people, and the events narrated by Moses and the other inspired writers, and those predicted by prophets were the all important things. In other books were found the thoughts and dreams of men, but in the Bible were the sacred truths of God.
Yet in spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. He was so saving of mercy, so extravagant in murder, so anxious to kill, so ready to assassinate, that I hated him with all my heart. At his command, babes were butchered, women violated, and the white hair of trembling age stained with blood. This God visited the people with pestilence -- filled the houses and covered the streets with the dying and the dead -- saw babes starving on the empty breasts of pallid mothers, heard the sobs, saw the tears, the sunken cheeks, the sightless eyes, the new made graves, and remained as pitiless as the pestilence.
This God withheld the rain -- caused the famine, saw the fierce eyes of hunger -- the wasted forms, the white lips, saw mothers eating babes, and remained ferocious as famine.
Stichwörter: compassion civilization bible violence respect
Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: inspirational inspiration god church bible salvation jesus motivation leadership influence individual jesus-christ leader lead potential christ inspiring leaders jehovah saved inspire holy-spirit leading pastor encounter direct principal motivate motivator israelmore-ayivor true-leaders true-leadership lead-people self-leaders self-leadership true-leader influencial business-leaders church-leaders leads self-leader holy-ghost-baptism
It seems to me that they only seem to mention things in the Bible that are within a 5 mile radius of the guy writing it.
Jim JefferiesStichwörter: bible comedy scepticism stand-up-comedy
The locust has no king
Just noise and hard language
They talk me over
Stichwörter: language bible powerlessness defeat southern-gothic pestilence organised-chaos roughness
They tell you the story of Job so often to remind you when you lose it all, stay calm. I've always refused it. I hated the story. It made no sense, and then I developed the belief that religion’s only purpose is to keep the poor from murdering the rich. And then I found the most dangerous folks are those who have nothing to lose, and I put it all together.
Darnell Lamont WalkerStichwörter: bible
When you are close to Christ, you are enclosed in liberty. You can never be intimidated by man if you are intimate with Christ.
Israelmore AyivorStichwörter: fear liberty man god church bible salvation jesus commandments food-for-thought jesus-christ christ close pastor prophesy saviour intimate don-t-be-afraid intimidate israelmore-ayivor the-word-of-god never-fear never-be-afraid be-saved congregation enclose enclosed fear-not god-speaks intimidated love-christ
For my days vanish like smoke;
my bones burn like glowing embers.
My heart is blighted and withered like grass;
I forget to eat my food.
In my distress, I groan aloud
and am reduced to skin and bones.
I am like a desert owl,
like an owl among the ruins.
~Psalm 102 NIV Bible
Stichwörter: bible sacrifice distress the-sin-collector
O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!
Orson Scott CardStichwörter: compassion bible bean
For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.
AnonymousStichwörter: virtue bible catholicism
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