B Quotes
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“But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.”
“But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.”
Source: Taken
“But God demonstrates His own love towards us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8”
“But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on God.”
Source: The Christian Atheist: Believing in God But Living as If He Doesn't Exist
“But God doesn't change."
"Men do, though."
"What difference does that make?"
"All the difference in the world.”
Source: Brave New World
“But God doesn’t just hang there while we get on with the rest of our week. He’s up to a lot of other really cool stuff. Let’s follow Him around and be part of it. I’m in! Are you?”
Source: Not Just on Sundays: Seeking God's Purpose in Each New Day
“But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.”
Source: The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply
“But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.”
“But God has a few of us to whom he whispers in the ear; The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.”
“But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.”
Source: I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like Himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.”
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
“But God has the most fun with artists and writers: he inflames them with the desire to rival his own creations, then douses their overheated ambitions with a cold spray from the garden hose of reality. If they persist, he slams them to the ground and tweaks them on the proboscis for good measure. A fortunate few break free and prosper; the others lament the day they didn't become bank clerks.”
“But God has to be given permission to work in this earth realm on behalf of man. You are in control! So if man has control, who no longer has it? God. When God gave Adam dominion, that meant God no longer had dominion. So God cannot do anything in this earth unless we let Him. And the way we let Him or give Him permission is through prayer.”
“But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.”
Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction
“But God is never cruel.”
Source: Joshua In The Holy Land
“But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.”
Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.”
Source: Lotus Buds
“But God knew how he missed the sea. He missed it in the sun, in the wind and the dark. He even missed the hiss of rain sweeping across it. He missed the dancing sunlight, its ever-shifting tint and hue, scudding cloud and shadow – dappled, ruffled, heaving, waves ridden by white horses, spume streaked, fierce and shrieking. He missed its limitless, open call, its ungoverned, unchecked freedom, the pull of the horizon, an unknown shore, clarity and unfathomable deep. Most of all he missed the 'mordroz': the sound of the sea, its soothing whisper, its pounding drum, its howling fury. For the sea called to him still; it was in his blood, wanted him back, sucked at his soul, clawing, smothering, dragging him down, a restless lover, a shining temptress that could never be sated.”
Source: The Keys of Hell and Death
“But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels
“But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!”
Source: The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction
“But God never seems capable of moderation”
Source: Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World
“But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.”
“But, God, the manor was oppressively cavernous at night! In the dark, it was easy to imagine, as Este had said, that the house expanded infinitely. Were I to walk too far, or fail to pay strict attention, I might stray into some witchy no-man’s-land from which return might not be as simple as merely retracing my steps but cost me a debt in blood, or a piece of my soul. Really, there was a turret with no ingress, a door in Juniper’s office that didn’t open, concealed panels in the walls connecting wings; Cameron Manor was far from predictable.”
Source: The House at Watch Hill
“But GOD was above them, who laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to Scorn, making them as a fiery Oven: Thus were the Stout Hearted spoiled, having slept their last Sleep, and none of their Men could find their Hands: Thus did the LORD judge among the Heathen, filling the Place with dead Bodies!”
Source: Brief History of the Pequot War
“But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.”
Source: Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book IV of IV
“But God!Who could live like this , anyway, with the kind of guesswork that was enough to make a person crazy, just sailing along, taking bumps here and there, no course navigated whatsoever, with any big wave capable of just tipping and sinking you entirely. IT was madness, stipidity, and- (then I saw him)”
“But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.”
“But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.”
Source: The Works of Lactantius: Of the false worship of the gods
“But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)
“But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.”
Source: The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)
“But godhead is, after all, a matter of fact, not a matter of opinion: if a man is generally worshipped as a god then he is a god. And if a god ceases to be worshipped he is nothing.”
Source: Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
“But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
Source: Circe
“But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963
“But gold is merely one such pyre upon which men have thrown themselves throughout their long and sordid history upon the earth. There are other fires that burn in the hearts of men—just as scorching, just as deadly.”
Source: We Burn Our Dead
“But Goldilocks, like many freaks, Does not appreciate antiques.”
Source: Revolting Rhymes
“But golf being an international game and everybody loving the game the way they do, if you want to spread the game of golf, it's good that you have great competition.”
“but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.”
Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel
“But good shooting made a warrior; discipline, a soldier.”
Source: Steel Crow Saga
“But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.”
Source: Thanks: The Second Essential Prayer
“But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.”
Source: The apostle Paul
“But grant the wrath of Heaven be great, 'tis slow.
[Lat., Ut sit magna tamen certe lenta ira deorum est.]”
“But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away”
Source: Johnson's Juvenal: London and The Vanity of Human Wishes
“But gratitude would not have me love you as I do. Love was inspired by what you are - the good, the bad, and even the foolish, which is what you're being right now.”
“But great tragedy is universal”
Source: The Golden House
“But Greg is patient. And there's lots to explore. There are no arrowheads, except for Sagittarius, but he comes across lost souls and helps them find their way to Heaven, or Valhalla, or back to Earth. Wherever they're supposed to go. He is a ferryman on a river of stars, a fisherman again catching light.”
Source: Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
“But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.”
Source: The Metamorphosis
“But grief is a funny thing like that - it doesn't run on anybody's time frame. It comes and goes, and the pain from losing the light of our lives still resides in all of us. You never really get over these types of things, you kind of live with it and slowly make it your new normal.”
Source: Damned and Beautiful
“But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.”
Source: The First Day of the Rest of My Life
“But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.”