My Strength is not My Own: Learning from God - 9

Sorry this is coming a day late. :( This past Sunday I was convicted about what we come to God for. Do we come to God because He is God, or do we come to make our petition known? I have to say that I do the latter. This disturbs my soul. God is omnipotent, omniscient, loving, merciful, and creator of all things, yet one of the main things I come to Him for are requests. Requests after request. Why don't we come to Him in prayer to worship Him and thank Him for all things? I feel so blessed every time I think of the mercy's that He has bestowed upon me. Not only do I need to work on coming before the Lord with a thankful heart but also coming before Him and showing reverence because of the knowledge of who He is. God is your friend that does care about your petitions, but remember that He is God.

Quotes

" Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
-Albert Einstein(this one made me laugh)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
-Albert Einstein

"You tell me it is impossible. There is no such word in French."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right."
-Lemony Snicket

"If you want to know the character of a man, look at his enemies."

"You have the whole world in your mind, you just have to see beyond what you can see."
-Gifted Hands

"It's a dangerous business Frodo going out your door you step on the road and if you don't kick your feet there's no knowing were you might be swept off to."
-Bilbo(Fellowship of the Ring)

"America is great because America is good.
When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
-Alexis de Tocqueville

"The man may be the head of the house but the woman is the neck and she can turn the head anyway she wants."
-My Big Fat Greek Wedding(the mom)

"It doesn't matter how hard you can hit but how hard you can get hit and still move forward."
-Rocky Balboa

"We talked to an average Joe, who gave us an above average clue."

-Phineas and Ferb

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

"Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down."

"The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God stands forever."

-Isaiah 40:8

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

-Agatha Christie

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord."

-Romans 6:23

"My dear, replied Valentine, "has not the Count just told us that all human wisdom is contained in the words 'Wait and hope!'"

-The Count of Monte Cristo

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

-C.S. Lewis

"He has made the earth by His power; He has established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heaven by His understanding."
-Jeremiah 51:15

"Amanda: You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!"
-Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie)

"Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, we are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought."
-Kathryn Stockett (The Help)

"...you are a very fine person Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are oly quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
- J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit)

‎"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or darkness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: 'For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.' Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors though Him who loves us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
-Romans 8:35-39

"It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
-C.S. Lewis (Screwtape Letters)

"Wherever they burn book they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

-Heinrich Heine

""Is he then an unhappy man?"
Poirot said:
"So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy."
The nun said softly:
"Ah, a rich man...."
Hercule Poirot said nothing-for he knew there was nothing to say...."
-Agatha Christie (The Labors of Hercules)

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