GwapoJoe Quotes |
If you are can believe that Abraham offered Ishmael instead of Isaac, Allah and YHWH are the same God, Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion, Muhammad is a viable prophet for a One True and Holy God, the Qur'an is the words of a Righteous God and that Yeshua is coming back to wipe out the Jews as stated in the Qur'an - then I am convinced that you are foolish enough to believe anything. 01-19-2007 Freedom is a right to do what one believes is right, not the right to indulge in evil. True freedom always has righteousness at the root as the opposite of freedom is bondage of which sin is the broad road. There is a difference having something, and something having you. There is a difference between being able to choose right (freedom) and the inability to deny wrong (bondage). I believe every person is aware of the two innate concepts that giving into sin will leave us vulnerable, and we will give an account one day for what we do. 2-23-2007 You can not force someone to believe something; you can only deny them of expressing what they believe. 2-23-2007 Thoughts are seeds producing more of same; think thoughts that make you what you'll be. Philippians 4:8 3/14/2010 |
George MacDonald Quotes |
Wisdom To Live By From George MacDonald GOD HIMSELF is man's birthplace. God is the self that makes the soul able to say, I too, am. GOD IS simply and altogether our friend, our Father. THE HIGHEST CREATION of which man is capable is to will the will of the Father. HE WHO will not let us out until we have paid the uttermost farthing, rejoices over the offer of the first golden grain in payment. Easy to please is he-hard indeed to satisfy. THERE ARE GOOD THINGS God must delay giving. God must first make his child fit to receive and fit to have. THE FIRST OF ALL TRUTHS, which a lifetime of church-going and Bible-reading will fail to disclose, is that for life to be a good thing and worth living, a man must be the child of a perfect Father and know him. GOD IS SO TRUE and good and strong and beautiful! The God of mountain lands and snowdrops, of woman's beauty and man's strength-the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ GOD IS OUR FATHER, but we are not yet his children. Because we are his children, we must become his sons and daughters. Nothing else will satisfy him, or us, until we become one with our Father. GOD'S LOVE is higher than his omnipotence. GOD WILL NOT CONQUER EVIL by crushing it under-foot-any god of man's idea could do that-but by conquest of heart over heart, of life over life, of life over death, of love over all. GOD LOVES, yea, is love. Therefore hell itself must be subservient to that love and must be an embodiment of it. EVERY ATTRIBUTE of God must be infinite as himself. He cannot be sometimes merciful, but not always merciful. He cannot be just, but not always just. Mercy belongs to him, and needs no contrivance of theologic chicanery to justify it. GOD CHOOSES to be good, otherwise he would not be God: man must choose to be good, otherwise he cannot be the son of God. FATHERHOOD is the last height of the human stair whence our understanding can see God afar off. GOD'S LOVE is ever in front of his forgiveness. God's love is the prime mover, ever seeking to perfect his forgiveness. LET A MAN THINK AND CARE ever so little about God, he does not therefore exist without God. God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though the man knows it not. THINK, BROTHERS, think, sisters, we walk in the air of an eternal fatherhood. EVERY UPLIFTING of the heart is a looking up to The Father. THE SPIRIT OF GOD lies all about the spirit of man like a mighty sea, ready to rush in at the smallest chink in the walls that shut him out from his own. WHEN SOULS HAVE BEEN ILL-TAUGHT about God, the true God will not let them gaze too long upon the Moloch which men have set up to represent Him. He will turn away their minds from that which men call Him, and fill them with some of his own lovely thoughts or works, such as may by degrees prepare the way for a vision of the Father. IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING that God should have his way with you, then, in the name of God, be miserable--until your misery drive you to the arms of the Father. |