“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

— Max Lucado

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American clergyman and writer 1955

Joni Eareckson Tada (1949) American artist

Source: The God I Love

“Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs. fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.”

Karen Armstrong book A History of God

A History of God (1993)

“He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.”

Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945) Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister

Wer den Teufel nicht hassen kann, der kann auch Gott nicht lieben.
Michael: a German fate in diary notes (1926)

“I testify that He is utterly incomparable in what He is, what He knows, what He has accomplished and what He has experienced. Yet, movingly, He calls us His Friends”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

“I would hate to think I am not an amateur. An amateur is one who loves what he is doing. Very often, I'm afraid, the professional hates what he is doing. So, I'd rather be an amateur.”

Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor

Source: The compleat violinist: thoughts, exercises, reflections of an itinerant violinist http://books.google.co.in/books?id=qC0xAQAAIAAJ, Summit Books, 1 April 1986, p. 79

“What is love? Sometimes it's just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you're supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Incubus Dreams

Source: Incubus Dreams

“We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish”

Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of Austria

quoted in the article The United Nations—How Strong a World Force?, in The Watchtower magazine, September 15, 1974.
Context: You must not expect the United Nations to accomplish miracles. We are made up of sovereign nations. We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish.

“Sometimes it is pleasant for a husband to have a jealous wife: he always hears what he loves being talked about.”

François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French author of maxims and memoirs

Il est quelquefois agréable à un mari d'avoir une femme jalouse; il entend toujours parler de ce qu'il aime.
Maxim 48 from the Manuscrit de Liancourt.
Later Additions to the Maxims

“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

“What Jesus spoke was Truth; the way He spoke was gracious. He spoke the truth in love. God is love, and the Son of God spoke lovingly.”

James Hamilton (1814–1867) Scottish minister and a prolific author of religious tracts

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 64.

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

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