Agnes Sanford famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.
-- Agnes Sanford

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As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.
-- Agnes Sanford

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The impulse of love that leads us to the doorway of a friend is the voice of God within, and we need not be afraid to follow it.
-- Agnes Sanford

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When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of 'The Reasonable Man'.
What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure
There is no justice in following unjust laws.
If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.
The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis.Â God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!
God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

Agnes Sanford famous quotes

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