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We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.
– Criss Jami

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  2. This wasn’t a legalistic play. He simply wanted more and more of God. – Matt Chandler
  3. In a general sense, I admit to valuing the worldviews of men under the age of 40 and women over the age of 30. – Criss Jami
  4. If you obey God with your whole heart, you’ll usually scare off the folks who want you to obey them. – Meg Moseley
  5. To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations. – Criss Jami
  6. Need’ now means wanting someone else’s money. ‘Greed’ means wanting to keep your own. ‘Compassion’ is when a politician arranges the transfer. – Joseph Sobran
  7. She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she’ll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. – CS Lewis
  8. when you obey the rules, the rules obey you – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  9. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  10. Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin.Wanting a man who was sin itself. – Elizabeth Hoyt
  11. When it comes to recognizing your greatness, start first within your mind. Start now, in this moment. Imagine, imagine, imagine and then believe! – Julieanne OConnor
  12. We cannot stop wanting. Wanting is the tireless engine of life itself. – Shai Tubali
  13. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. – Sylvia Plath
  14. Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
  15. Fashion is simply a guideline for style-less people to appear stylish. – Criss Jami
  16. Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said. – Criss Jami
  17. Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than. – Criss Jami
  18. If you assume that the new – and simply because it’s new – is always to be better than the old, chances are you’ve never known anything valuable. – Criss Jami
  19. Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live. – Criss Jami
  20. The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave. – Ayn Rand
  21. Middle age is when your age starts to show through your middle-¦ and trust me, MIss, your age doesn’t show in the slightest.#dean – Shayla Orick
  22. The age of reason may have had its golden age, but the age of emotion endures forever. – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  23. LORD God, please give us grace to obey thy great laws. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  24. May you know, love, obey and serve the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  25. Obey, love and serve the Lord with all your quintessence. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  26. Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more. – Criss Jami
  27. Best to live and love by the maxim that ‘silence in the face of evil is evil itself’, but when it’s evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself. – Criss Jami
  28. Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream. – Ryan Lilly
  29. To fear man’s judgment more than God’s judgment is to fear man more than God. – Criss Jami
  30. Let what offends God offend me, and what God pardons, I pardon. – Criss Jami
  31. Live simply so others may simply live – Mahatma Gandhi
  32. Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love. – Janet Goodfriend
  33. Imagine trying to live without air.Now imagine something worse. – Amy Reed
  34. God writes love and speaks poetry. – Criss Jami
  35. Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit. – Criss Jami
  36. The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes. – Criss Jami
  37. I can’t imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out. – Jim Benton
  38. Ingredients to success: know what you do well, know what to do well, and know someone who’s swell. – Criss Jami
  39. Do not tell someone you are hungry if, whenever they feed you, you do not eat. – Criss Jami
  40. Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can’t see when you’re unashamedly looking down on someone. – Criss Jami

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