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There are more than 22,000 denominations in the world. How lucky you are that you happen to be in the one that is right! (Juan Carlos Ortiz, Argentinian evangelist)

"Fame is like a big piece of meringue - its beautiful and you keep eating it, but it doesn't really fill you up." (Pierce Brosnan - James Bond)

"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." (Mother Theresa)

"Before God we are all equally wise, and equally foolish" (Albert Einstein)

"Most of what you read in the papers is lies. And I should know, because a lot of the lies you see in the papers are mine." (Max Clifford - publicist)

"Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed." (Robert H Schuller)

"Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway." (Mary C Crowley)

"The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer" (Oswald Chambers)

"I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker" (Voltaire)

"In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true" (Eugene Petersen's translation of Matthew 5 - The Message)

"Fame and money are hollow shams. Don't go there. It's pointless. There's nothing there." (Stephen Fry)

"A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give Him cash." (Robert E Harris)

"God is the perfect poet" (Robert Browning)

"Does the Church of England exist?" (Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury - July 2003)

"Poor old Methuselah, how did he manage to stand it so long?" (Mark Twain)

"Most people wish to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity." (Author unknown)

"We walk on two legs: grace and forgiveness" (African Christian Proverb)

"What can you say about a society that says God is dead but Elvis is alive?" (Irv Kupcinet)

"It's your heart, not the dictionary that gives meaning to your words." (Eugene Peterson Matthew 12 in The Message)

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details." (Albert Einstein)

"God: the most popular scapegoat for our sins." (Mark Twain)

"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." (Lily Tomlin)

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything" (Thomas Edison)

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, its going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation." (Roger Allen)

"There is not a square inch of the whole terrain of human existence over which Christ...does not exclaim, "Mine!" " (Abraham Kuyper)

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." (John Lennon)

"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better" (Anon)

"Those things that hurt, instruct" (Benjamin Franklin)

"Never let anything fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the risen Christ" (Mother Theresa)

"God is the best of time-keepers. He created time; he is never late for his appointments" (Bruce Milne)

On Eternal Life: "He is no fool who gives away what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose" (Jim Elliot)

"It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration." (Oswald Chambers)

"There is no joy like the joy of holiness" (R Murray McCheyne)

"There are so few fellow workers with God, and so many workers for Him" (Oswald Chambers)

"When one door closes, another opens, but we so often look upon the closed
door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." (A.G. Bell)

"Thirsty hearts are those whose longings have been awakened by the touch of God within them." (A.W. Tozer)

"So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about - He is looking for us." (Simon Tugwell)

"Long before he laid down earth's foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love...he had his eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living" (Paul, in The Message, Ephesians ch1)

"I am my beloved's and his desire is for me." (Song of Songs)

"The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." (Frederick Buechner)

"The volume of your emptiness determines the amount of your filling" (Tommy Tenney)

"The bigger I grow in God, the smaller I become" (Allen Bond)

"The glory of God is man fully alive" (Saint Irenaeus)

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