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The Israelites frequently forsook God, and he as frequently forsook them. But when they repented and returned to him, he remembered his covenant and delivered them from their distresses. -- Adoniram Judson
We must return to nature and nature's god. -- Luther Burbank
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often. -- Johannes Tauler
I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen. -- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him. -- John Clayton
When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again. -- Jakob Bohme
When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up. -- Herman Hesse
I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return. -- Bertrand Russell
I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back. -- Lady Gaga
Job was astonished at seeing Almighty God so intent on doing good to us that He seems to have nothing more at heart than to love us and to induce us to love Him in return. -- Alphonsus Liguori
If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. -- Jon Meacham
I believe God's keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can't give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it's peace or joy or satisfaction. -- Joel Osteen
Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearing. We went to church, and I still go with my mum and dad when I return home - it's a family thing. I played flute in my dad's marching band, but I had an integrated upbringing. We had a lot of Catholic friends. -- James Nesbitt
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God's divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego's insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you. -- Wayne Dyer
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, -- George Herbert
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? -- Chief Seattle
If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God. -- Alexander Schmemann
Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this. -- Pope Francis
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases. -- Max Muller

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