Quotes about Refuse

theology, and as such, He provides the only example worth following. I will not lower the standard of Scripture to fit my experience. Instead, I work to raise my level of experience to the standard of Scripture. I refuse to create another standard to give any explanation for my lack.

But a heart that refuses to listen to the promptings of the Holy Spirit will not change, no matter how hard you pray.

God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ . . .if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.

None of us deserves God's love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9—12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment... But think of the kind and good people that you know... They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God's offer of mercy and forgiveness. God's judgment applies to them too.

I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

When I was on the London assembly it was quite common for government ministers to refuse to appear.

So I refuse to let religious phonies destroy my heart for the One who loves me and draws close to me when I am wounded. I refuse to be robbed of life's greatest treasure — a personal, permanent, passionate relationship with God through faith in Jesus.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Forgiveness is a matter of choice, not feelings. We demonstrate true forgiveness when we refuse to brood over the sins committed against us.

My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.

God gives salvation to the needy, but gives the deep things of His heart to the hungry who refuse to live without them.