Lord Quotes - Page 40

• I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hurt, Giving, Suffering

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• Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Dear Lord, World, Madhouses

  LEO TOLSTOY (1961). “ANNA KARENINA”

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• Lord, save all the elect, and then elect some more.

  Charles Spurgeon

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• How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

  Sam Levenson

  Wise, Religion, Knows

  "You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson".

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• The worker is far more important to our Lord than the work.

  Lettie Cowman

  Work, Important, Workers

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• If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Church, Would Be

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• Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.

  David Asscherick

  Fall, Heart, Love Is

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• Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Who Cares, Break, Ifs

  "Report to Greco" by Nikos Kazantzakis, translated by P. A. Bien, Faber and Faber Limited, (p. 16), 1973.

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• If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

  Carman

  Alive, Wonder, Resurrection

  "Song: Sunday's on the Way". 1983.

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• In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

  Timothy Keller

  Mean, Awe And Wonder, Language

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• Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and rule in our environment when we praise Him. When we praise, God comes in and leads us forth... He does not just visit us, but He abides and aligns Himself with us to walk with us into the path that He has chosen for us.

  Chuck Pierce

  Doe, Path, Causes

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• My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

  Woody Allen

  God, Done

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• Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Together, Atoms

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.7, Hill and Wang

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• To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.

  Timothy Keller

  Greatness, His Love, Overwhelmed

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.44, Penguin

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• To me, it has always been difficult to understand those evangelical Christians who insist upon living in the crisis as if no crisis existed. They say they serve the Lord, but they divide their days so as to leave plenty of time to play and loaf and enjoy the pleasures of the world as well. They are at ease while the world burns.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Play, Ease

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• The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Enemy, Miscellaneous

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• The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Mother, Blessed, Blessing

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• We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

  Dwight Edwards

  Christian, Jesus, Different

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• It is possible that we can get so busy doing work 'for' the Lord that we have no time FOR the Lord.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Busy

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• Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Lying, Love You

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• Everyone, no matter what their marital circumstance or number of children, can be defenders of the Lord’s plan described in the family proclamation. If it is the Lord’s plan, it should also be our plan!

  Bonnie L. Oscarson

  Children, Numbers, Matter

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• When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.

  Frederic Mistral

  Doubt, World, Remember

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• Lord, reform Thy world, beginning with me.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Reform, World

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1941, Volume 10”, p.561, Best Books on

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• A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Humorous, Delicacy

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.22

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Regret, Fall

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