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For I do not want to see you now only in passing; I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord permits.
- 1 Corinthians 16:7
Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.
- Perry Stone
Hence the explanation of sin is that God permits it, but controls and overrules it for His own glory. If
- Loraine Boettner
All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.
- Philip Yancey
Yes, God is the author of everything, including evil, in the sense that He permits it, but not in the sense that He produces it. Evil happens in His permissive will, but He does not promote evil in His perfect will.
- Norman Geisler
The thing for you is a burial permit. You have only to speak and I will see that you get it.
- Dale Carnegie
However zealous He is towards His own will, He will temporarily permit Satan to be on the offensive should His people forget His will and fail to show sympathy by cooperating with Him.
- Watchman Nee
God allows in His wisdom what He could easily prevent by His power.
- Graham Cooke
Then, turning to his sister: Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.
- Victor Hugo
Sister, never a precaution on the part of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother may not fall into sin on our account.
- Victor Hugo
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
- John Milton
How intolerant it is not to permit men to cherish an impulse towards what is in their eyes congenial and advantageous! Yet in a sense thou withholdest from them the right to do this, when thou resentest their wrong-doing. For they are undoubtedly drawn to what they deem congenial and advantageous. But they are mistaken. Well, then, teach and enlighten them without any resentment.
- Marcus Aurelius