Virginia Postrel Quotes

Let God take care of history. Don’t force it by some sort of whacky alliance between the religious right and Israel in order to bring about some Biblical prophesy.

As a child of God, your destiny, if you work hard enough and are faithful, is to become like Him. That means that there is nothing that is true that you cannot learn, because He knows all truth.

But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.

The earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

What if these events the Bible says will happen, happens in our lifetime?

There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.

I think people need something to believe in, because they don't want to have control over their own lives. They'd rather be able to blame it on an unknown being, or a greater god, or a greater spirit of sorts. And I think it's easier for them to blame it on that.

It is truly bracing and instructive to contemplate the End Times - at least at safe remove, in the pages of fiction - especially as the world beyond our hearths churns and convulses unknowably, yet perhaps just short of ultimate disaster.

It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

In the prequel we're going to tell about the characters before Left Behind, and the book would end with the rapture instead of start with the rapture like the first one did.

Is the establishment of Israel in fact a manifestation of God? Has a new stage been reached in the history of salvation? Is the present occupation of Israel a religious or a secular one, and if it is secular, cannot God make use of it for His purpose?

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 years old.

The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

Whereas the glory of Almighty God and the good of mankind is the reason and the end of government ... therefore government itself is a venerable ordinance of God

If this is of God, it will endure …

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.