"Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes."

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Source : Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

David F. Wells

#Evil Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Sovereignty Quotes

“If I loved someone enough, I would go anywhere in the world with them." â€”Staggerlee”
“A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.”
“My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'”
“Being aggressive is a lot less risky in the end. Are you going to eat your lunch, or have your lunch eaten for you.”
“There were many low points and times I doubted myself at work. I've heard no many more times than I've heard yes and there have been long periods in between jobs where money became very tight and I wondered how I was going to pay my bills. I've had to borrow money from friends and family to get by sometimes. That's the part of the 'overnight' success that people don't see. The struggle is real.”
“Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichÃ©s, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.”
“I think that's such a beautiful sentiment. Love should only last as long as a very expensive and impractical bikini that looks stunning, but dissolves in the sea within days. So many pop songs tell of this terrible, tiresome love that they want to last forever. But that just makes me think of long-life milk, acrid and fake. Love should be like a movie trailer. Even if the film's a stinker, you get the best laughs and the biggest explosions in the space of two minutes.”
“You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.”

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