Same Kind Of Different As Me

Saw this movie last night with Mrs. Johnson. It was incredible. I looked up a bunch of quotes from the movie.

The Word says God don't give us credit for lovin the folks we want to love anyway. No, He gives us credit for loving the unlovable. The perfect love of God don't come with no conditions. -Denver Moore

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan. -Denver Moore

Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin' you can do, that's when God takes over. -Denver Moore

"But sometimes we has to be thankful for the thing that hurts us," I said, "'cause sometimes God does things that hurt us but they help somebody else."

I used to spend a lotta time worryin that I was different from other people, even from other homeless folks. Then, after I met Miss Debbie, and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from then that we wouldn't even gon' have no kind a' future. But I found out everybody's different-the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us. The truth about it is, whether we is rich or poor or somethin' in between, this earth ain't no final restin' place. So in a way, we all is homeless-just workin' our way toward home. -Denver Moore
(At this part in the movie, Denver spoke these words at Debbie's funeral and added, "Welcome home, Miss Debbie, welcome home")

Those precious to God become important to Satan.

He assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.

The pain of losing Deborah still brings tears. And I cannot mask my profound disappointment that God did not answer yes to our prayers for healing. I think He's okay with that. One of the phrases we evangelicals like to throw around is that Christianity is "not a religion; it's a relationship." I believe that, which is why I know that when my faith was shattered and raged against Him, He still accepted me. And even though I have penciled a black mark in His column, I can be honest about it. That's what a relationship is all about.  -Ron Hall

The Word of God says God put ever star in the heavens and even give ever one of em a name. If one of em was gon' fall out of the sky, that was up to Him, too. Maybe we can't see where it's gon' wind up, but He can. That's when I knew that even though it didn't make no sense to me, God had put Miss Debbie in my life like a bright star, and God knew where she was gon' wind up. And I found out that sometimes we just have to accept the things we don't understand.

That's the good thing 'bout God. Since He can see right through your heart anyway, you can go and tell Him what you really think.

Mr. Ron, I was captive in the devil's prison. That was easy for Miss Debbie to see. But I got to tell you: Many folks had seen me behind the bars of that prison for more than thirty years, and they just walked on by. Kept their keys in their pocket and left me locked up. Now I ain't tryin' to run them other folks down, 'cause I was not a nice fella-dangerous-and prob'ly just as happy to stay in prison. But Miss Debbie was different-she seen me behind them bars and reached way down in her pocket and pulled out the keys God gave her and used one to unlock the prison door and set me free.