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#1

“Being in relationship with Jesus, "God, The One and Only", is the single cure for hatred ...the only guarantee of salam or shalom!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christianity, islam, jesus-following, religion

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#2

“Trust in Jesus, wholeheartedly. Don't try to figure things out yourself. Just be intimate with Him!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christianity, jesus, love, salvation, security

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#3

“Christians who say we are not to judge others are only partially correct! Judging rightly is what Jesus commands. Love and truth are “The Commanded Conjoined Twins” for Jesus Followers; they must never be separated if we wish to obey Jesus’ “Platinum Rule”!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christian, christian-living, jesus, love, truth

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#4

“The mediocre leader tells. The good leader explains. The superior leader demonstrates. The great leader inspires.”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: leaders, leadership, mentor, mentoring, wisdom

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#5

“Too many Christians reverse New Covenant commands as we seek, through condemnation of the world, the return of the never-existent, demonic myth of the "Christian Nation"!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christian-nation, christianity, church, judging, spirituality

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#6

“Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: accountability, business-success, christianity, judgement

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#7

“Whether most Muslims are peaceable is irrelevant. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam now & act-out what the Qur'an truly says ...maul, march, & murder every Infidel if they won't convert!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: islam, islamic-terrorism, islamism, islamization, islamophobia, jihadism

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#8

“Islamo-Fascism is NOT the result of economic deprivation or legitimate blowback because of Western foreign policies or even heinous drone attacks on Muslim civilians. All non-Muslims as Infidels, regardless of their faith or lack of it, are in an ideological war with a demonized, freedom-hating Muslim death-cult rooted in their accurate interpretation of the Qur'an!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: hatred, islam, islamisation, islamism, islamization, jihad, jihadism, persecution, persecution-of-christians

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#9

“The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams.”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: american-dream, empowerment, jesus, lifestyle

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#10

“Striving to 'be the best' is overrated & not smart. Grow to become only 1% better than your top competitor in your chosen field(s) of expertise.”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: perfectionism, success, wisdom

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#11

“The “Word of God” is not simply the Christian Bible but exists in a threefold form: “The Word” incarnate (Jesus Followers’ King), the word prophesied and proclaimed (Prophets), and the word in scripture (Bible). All three are the self-disclosure of God, The One & Only ...in three, distinct & unique Persons, Father, Son, & Holy Spirit.”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: bible, father, holy-spirit, son, the-word, trinity

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#12

“Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: aquisitiveness, selfishness, trust, trusting-god

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#13

“God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does!”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: apostacy-laws, buddhism, hate, hinduism, homophobia, hounour-killing, islam, jesus, jesus-following, jihad, misogyny

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#14

“The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!” http://diigo.com/0odk2 ~ gfp '42©”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christianity, evangelism, jesus, jesus-following

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#15

“A Jesus Follower can explain our "One God in Three Persons" is like an "equilateral triangle". Both have three, conjoined, and distinct but identical parts. This is a simple way to help non-Followers of Jesus who struggle with the concept of Trinity to better understand the Three Personalities of our One Living God...God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit." ~ gfp '42©”
― Gary F. Patton

tags: christianity, evangelism, jesus, trinity

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#16

“What are all these?" Clary asked.
"Vials of holy water, blessed knives, steel and silver blades," Jace said, piling the weapons on the floor beside him, "electrum wire - not much use at the moment but it's always good to have spares - silver bullets, charms of protetion, crucifixes, stars of David-"
"Jesus," said Clary
"I doubt he'd fit."
"Jace." Clary was appalled.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary-fray, humor, irony, jace-wayland, jesus

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#17

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

tags: faith, god, jesus

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#18

“The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

tags: christian, faith, god, jesus, spirituality

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#19

“Anything under God's control is never out of control.”
― Charles Swindoll

tags: god, hope, inspirational, jesus, relationship

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#20

“Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.”
― Lenny Bruce

tags: god, jesus, organized-religion, religion

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#21

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: violence

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#22

“Your identity & life passion/purpose in the context of your beliefs determine your vision, your vision determines your mission, your mission determines your KRAs, your KRAs determine your goals, your goals determine your thoughts, and your thoughts determine your life!” ~ gfp '42©”
― Gary Patton

tags: goal-setting, purpose-of-life, results, success, successful-living

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#23

“Jesus Followers are called to be reflectors of His character, servants of his grace, ambassadors of His message and magnifiers of His glory!” ~ © gfp '42”
― Gary Patton

tags: jesus, sanctification, spiritual-growth

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#24

“Failure's Only R-E-A-L Second Chance Is Jesus! He offers another chance EVERY time you fall down and even empowers your getting back up as He guarantees at http://flip.it/689cV. To gain this privilege in the dirty here and now, please redeem the FREE gift coupon you'll discover at http://flip.it/Zzbw2. Jesus really is R-E-A-L (Relational-Engaging-Authentic-Life-giving!) " ~ © gfp '42™”
― Gary Patton

tags: abundant-life, jesus, salvation, trials

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#25

“Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

tags: believe, god, idea, passion

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#26

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

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#27

“My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread; I'm selling yeast.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

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#28

“Neither genetics nor 'programming' nor 'Vicious Voices' in your head, can command one's destiny!" ~ © gfp '42™”
― Gary Patton

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#29

“Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

tags: death-threats, islamism, jihadism, osama-bin-laden, personal-questions, terrorism

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#30

“Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture” of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus of “the service”. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn't read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others because it’s so boring. Might traditional, so-called-inspired preaching still be the best way to communicate God’s Word?” ~ © gfp '42™”
― Gary Patton

tags: christianity, church, lecture, preaching

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