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Time was God's first creation.


Walter Lang
Tags: Time God First
I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.
Joyce Meyer
Tags: Time God Like
A god whose creation is so imperfect that he must be continually adjusting it to make it work properly seems to me a god of relatively low order, hardly worthy of any worship.
Martin Gardner
Tags: Work God Me
The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
Adam Hamilton
Tags: God Like Other
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.


Victoria Osteen
Tags: Best God Our
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Giorgio Vasari
There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
Frances O'Grady
Tags: Work Make Every
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Albert Einstein
Tags: God Who His
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan Williams
Tags: God Love Which
The God of justice is with us, and our word, our work - our prayer for freedom will not, cannot be in vain.
Elizabeth Caty Stanton
Tags: Work God Freedom
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I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.


Sue Monk Kidd
At the heart of every being lies creation's dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Tags: God Will Being
It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.
Hudson Taylor
Tags: Work God Always
A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
Said Nursi
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
Louisa May Alcott
Tags: Work God Men
Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
Lance Henriksen
Tags: He Then Little
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.


Luigi Pirandello
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
George Steiner
Tags: Anger Me Our
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I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.


Maureen O'Hara
Tags: God Me About
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis
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