Quotes about Cooperation

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Man can refuse to cooperate, but he cannot keep God from executing the critical events on His schedule.

The tongues of God's people are meant to be set ablaze by the holy fire of heaven, achieving that which glorifies God. But a sanctified mouth is too unnatural to ever be coincidental. If we want it, we need to pursue it regularly and cooperate with God to receive it.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

The one who plants and the one who waters are equal, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor. 1 Corinthians 3:8

Let's be careful, though, that we don't err in the opposite extreme of faithless caution. A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: "We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war..." Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along," one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

In all things that are purely social we [black and white] can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

it is the smaller, the petty, things in life that divide people. It is the great tasks that bring men together.

It is not possible for one man to hold another man down in the ditch without staying down there with him.