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Quotes by Clergyman

"For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted."
Will,

"I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be."

"In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle."

"Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each state. Then we could control the government."

"All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance."

"Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed."

"We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny."

"Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord."

"Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical."

"Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals."

"In restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat."

"Pride always puts [self] above others-and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person."

"What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour."

"We can't flee from temptation in our own strength-but God will give us the strength we need, if we'll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!"

"Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do."

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

"Let me into your lives, your world. Live on me, so that you may become truly alive."

"No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this."

"The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited-these are some of Satan's favorite tricks."

"Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?"

"Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him."

"Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come."

"So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul."

"I am never lonely when I am praying, for this brings me into companionship with the greatest friend of all-Jesus Christ. He said, “I call you not servants; . . . but . . . friends” [John 15:15 KJV]."

"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

"God's will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God's will also is that we avoid sin."

"Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don't find security."

"God's will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal."

"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."
Will,

"I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man."

"The Christian's journey through life isn't a sprint but a marathon."

"We do not have a paradise on earth, it is riddled with so much sin and disease."
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