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Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They're all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning.
— Francine Rivers
Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.
— Francine Rivers
You have no idea the power a good woman has over a man. You made me think about the faith I thought Id lost. He gave a low laugh. You got me back inside a church. And, if all that isn't enough.. He took her hand, kissed the palm, and pressed it flat against his bare chest. She could feel the hard pounding of his heart. Does that make you feel safer?
— Francine Rivers
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
— Frank Herbert
Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.
— Frank Herbert
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. The uncertain rabbits had to be exposed, made to run for their burrows. Else how could you control them and breed them?
— Frank Herbert
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
— Ronald Reagan
Is our world gone? We say Farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is the pattern throughout Creation. One child, one man, can swing the balance of the universe.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If my religion is true, it will stand up to all my questioning; there is no need to fear. But if it is not true, if it is man imposing strictures on God (as did the men of the Christian establishment of Galileo's day), then I want to be open to God, not to what man says about God.
— Madeleine L'Engle
William Langland, writing around 1400, said, 'And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.
— Madeleine L'Engle