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It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don’t agree with us. ~Oswald Chambers
 
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Jesus says regarding judging - Don't. The average Christian is the most penetratingly critical individual. Criticism is a part of the ordinary faculty of man; but in the spiritual domain nothing is accomplished by criticism. The effect of criticism is a dividing up of the powers of the one criticized; the Holy Ghost is the only One in the true position to criticize, He alone is able to show what is wrong without hurting and wounding. It is impossible to enter into communion with God when you are in a critical temper; it makes you hard and vindictive and cruel, and leaves you with the flattering unction that you are a superior person. Jesus says, as a disciple cultivate the uncritical temper. It is not done once and for all. Beware of anything that puts you in the superior person's place. -Oswald Chambers
 
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Love this one as there is a difference.

Godly sorrow focuses on God. Worldly sorrow says what's going to happen to me.

You understand?

I couldn't get free from that sin because I was afraid I would be judged for that sin. But a year later I said, "God, I've hurt your heart, I've hurt you. I want this gone. It breaks our fellowship." That was Godly sorrow. It produced repentance. -John Bevere
 
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From the movie, "Under the Tuscan Sun":

Kathryn, "When I was a little girl I used to spend hours looking for ladybugs. Finally I just give up and fall asleep in the grass. When I woke up they were crawling all over me."

Francis, "Sooo..."

Kathryn, "So go work on your house and forget about it."
 
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Robban said:
It matters not if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

Chinese saying.
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Ba ha ha. Nice timing as I'm about to post one by MLKJ, but tagged along with "The vision needs time to grow."
 
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Jo555 said:
The vision needs time to grow.
-Arab leader during the Arab Spring.

I would also say that sometimes we are given the vision, but time can still be needed for us to grow within to properly carry out the vision.

That may be what he meant.
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Going to add this one as an addition. From, one of my favorite speech writers, Martin Luther King Jr.

I would just change soul force to God's Spiritual force.

A portion from the famous "I Have a Dream" speech:

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: in the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny, and they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.
 
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Robban said:
A food for thought one,

"If we only do His will when it makes sense, what has it to do with Him, we are doing our own will."

The Rebbe.
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Definitely takes faith. Speaking of which, reminds me of another ...
 
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From "The Calvary Road" by Roy Hession

Now we all know what Jesus meant by the mote in the other person's eye. It is some fault which we fancy we can discern in him; it may be an act he has done against us, or some attitude he adopts towards us. But what did the Lord Jesus mean by the beam in our eye? I suggest that the beam in our eye is simply our unloving reaction to the other man's mote. Without doubt there is a wrong in the other person. But our reaction to that wrong is wrong too! The mote in him has provoked in us resentment, or coldness, or criticism, or bitterness, or evil speaking, or ill will--all of them variants of the basic ill, unlove.
 
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