Encouraging Quotes - Page 22

• When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

  John Milton

  Encouragement, Knowing, Understanding God

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• Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Spiritual, Believe

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• Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Encouragement, Glasses, Broken

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• Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.

  Plato

  Running, Perseverance, Clever

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• First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

  David Platt

  People, Church, Teach

  David Platt (2013). “What Did Jesus Really Mean When He Said Follow Me?”, p.46, Tyndale House

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• We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

  David Platt

  Fighting, Needs, World

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.159, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

  David Platt

  Trying, Our Actions, Affection

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.111, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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