God is using people to accomplish His work, of saving souls, but we have to remember that it is not us doing the work. It's God using our vessel.
Heaven is a very distinct place, where only God's elect will go. It's the place where the only One who deserves any glory lives and reigns.
The lusts of this world leads us to fulfill our carnal need to be accepted, but as children of God we are already accepted by a Heavenly Father who is over and above all things.
Jesus was a perfect example of following authority. He was subject to His earthly parents; he subjected himself to the laws of the land, and as God, he had the power not to do any of it.
We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane.
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.
We can no longer expect an Intelligence Community that is mostly male and mostly white to be able to monitor and infiltrate suspicious organizations or terrorist groups.
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel deceived.
You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.
The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.
I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.
I can't see what's wrong about assuming intelligence in your audience and what's bad news about being rewarded for assuming that.
I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
