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When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things. Anne Graham Lotz

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Around 1998, I went through lots of pressures and struggles. My children got married within eight months of each other, my son was diagnosed with cancer and went through major surgery and radiation, my mother had five life-threatening hospitalizations where I stayed with her, my husband's dental office burned to the ground. Anne Graham Lotz

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Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus. Anne Graham Lotz

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Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself. Anne Graham Lotz

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I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. Anne Graham Lotz

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It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it. Anne Graham Lotz

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased. Anne Graham Lotz

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It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God. Anne Graham Lotz

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I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting. Anne Graham Lotz

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I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that. Anne Graham Lotz

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I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry. Anne Graham Lotz

If any come to my house to be instructed in the ways of God what rule have I to put them away? Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court? Anne Hutchinson

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Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. Anne Hutchinson

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They thought that I did conceive there was a difference between them and Mr. Cotton... I might say they might preach a covenant of works as did the apostles, but to preach a covenant of works and to be under a covenant of works is another business. Anne Hutchinson

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I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge. Anne Hutchinson

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If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield. Anne Hutchinson

Me You Rule Shall Look Yield Convince

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart. Anne Hutchinson

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The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ. Anne Hutchinson

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We fully believed, so soon as we saw that woman's suffrage was right, every one would soon see the same thing, and that in a year or two, at farthest, it would be granted. Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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