A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN
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Abigail Van Buren47 quotes“A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
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Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores – it’s called partnership.
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Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren So yesterday you fell off the wagon? Or maybe you blew your diet? Or lost your temper and shot off your mouth? Well, that was yesterday. Today is a brand-new day with a clean slate, so forget yesterday!
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren So the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, “Loneliness is the ultimate poverty”
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If you don’t value what you have, you’re sure to lose it.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The purpose of life is to amount to something and have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you’re supervised or not; finish a job once it’s started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Accept every blind date you can get, even with a girl who wears jeans. Maybe you can talk her out of them.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you’ve got to help pay for the piping. And the piper.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can’t speak for my twin sister.
Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
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Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
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There’s nothing like the local church when it’s working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.
Bill HybelsBill Hybels A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Billy SundayBilly Sunday A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.
Bill JohnsonBill Johnson Monica Langley has a great piece in The Wall Street Journal about how they’re trying to create different kinds of moments for Donald Trump, as opposed to just him shouting at rallies.
Bill BurtonBill Burton Im known for snatchin’ purses and bombin’ churches I get more pussy on accident then most niggas get on purpose
Big LBig L Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
Bill HybelsBill Hybels The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
Benjamin RushBenjamin Rush In 1835 at Kirtland I learned from my Sisters Husband Lyman R. Shirman, who was close to the Prophet and Received it from him. That the ancient order of plural marriage was again to be practiced by the Church.
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