Provoking Quotes - Page 3

• So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

  Martin Luther

  Effectiveness, Thought Provoking, Grows

  Martin Luther (1967). “Table talk”

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• Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, People, Thought Provoking

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• If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.

  Steve Pavlina

  Thought Provoking, Choices, Boss

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• God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Stories, Love Story

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• Self-awareness and healthy self-love go hand in hand. When we love what God has given us and share it with others naturally and without expectations for gratitude we are truly people who have spiritual self-confidence and compassion; and isn't that a great way to live?

  Robert J. Wicks

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Self Confidence

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• One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Jesus, Hard Times

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• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.

  Hans Kung

  Thought Provoking, Humanity, Lasts

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• Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

  Jo Brand

  Strong, Trying, Television

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• Lukewarm people will serve God and others, but there are limits to how far they will go or how much time, money, and energy they are willing to give.

  Francis Chan

  People, Giving, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.51, David C Cook

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• Why is it that we believe God's promises of blessing but not his promises of punishment?

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Blessing, Punishment

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• Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Children, Father

  Martin Luther (1962). “The Christian in society”

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• If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, May, Scripts

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• Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

  Francis Chan

  Mean, Thought Provoking, Failing

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.171, David C Cook

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• He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Running, Baby

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 6 (1971)

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• Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/ when we are judged by the children of our slaves.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Children, Hero, Blood

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• It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

  Martin Niemoller

  Long, Thought Provoking, Enemy

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• Adieu, Lord Dain,” she answered without turning her head. “Have a pleasant evening with your cows.” Cows? She was merely trying to provoke him, Dain told himself. The remark was a pathetic attempt at a setdown. To take offense was to admit he’d felt the sting. He told himself to laugh and return to his… cows.

  Loretta Chase

  Laughing, Trying, Cows

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• We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Prayer, Thought Provoking

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• Some of you could be worshipping God but you're playing with a video game.

  Francis Chan

  Games, Thought Provoking, Video

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• I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

  Francis Chan

  Writing, Thought Provoking, Needs

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• Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

  Francis Chan

  Believe, Heart, Thought Provoking

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• There is nothing dictators hate so much as that unassailable, eternally elusive, eternally provoking gleam. One of the main reasons why the very gallant Russian poet Gumilev was put to death by Lenin's ruffians thirty odd years ago was that during the whole ordeal, in the prosecutor's dim office, in the torture house, in the winding corridors that led to the truck, in the truck that took him to the place of execution, and at that place itself, full of the shuffling feet of the clumsy and gloomy shooting squad, the poet kept smiling.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Hate, Years, Squad

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• Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.

  Francis Chan

  Jesus, Giving, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.56, David C Cook

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• We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

  Larry Page

  Data Collection, Thought Provoking, Sound

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• It's not that there aren't a million other things to learn about God, but He says you've got to start with the fear of the Lord because that's the beginning of wisdom.

  Francis Chan

  Thought Provoking, Lord, Millions

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