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“To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.”
“Sometimes the very things that were expending our lives to sustain are the very things that are killing our ability to live. And against our blind and frequently raging protests, these are the very...”
“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we dont have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and rea...”
“That which I cannot hold is that which I can treasure the most because it affords me no burden other than to enjoy it.”
“Independence that has declared its independence from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while r...”
“To embrace the message of Christmas is to throw off my hedonistic rebellion and bow before the chafing reality that I can't save myself, and in that very act to be suddenly taken aback in that I've...”
“Rare are the handful of principles that incessantly drive us to stand even when we face the stark realization that we will likely perish in the standing. And rarer still is the person who will surr...”
“It is at the precise moment that I take something for granted that I have placed myself in the precarious position of losing that very thing. And if that thing I risk losing is liberty, taking it f...”
“If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of fr...”
“The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet re...”
“Is it possible that my walls are specifically erected and intentionally reinforced out of the fear that God calls me to an existence without walls? And if this is so, do I realize that I am the war...”
“Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything thats breaking us...”
“The difference between a man and a father is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.”
“If a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by birth only and no power on earth can eve...”
“All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this...”
“One of a mothers greatest gifts is to teach her child that to grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at waters edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by. Rather, it is to deliberat...”
“Chilled ice tea that tempered tepid summer days lathered thick with humidity. Frothy hot chocolate that cut winters chill. Bedtime prayers that sent our fears scrambling in panicked flight. Golden ...”
“With the gentle force of their words, the dogged warmth of their embrace, and the assuring touch of souls softly bared, mothers are silently shaping whole societies and authoring entire cultures th...”
“A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given,...”
“Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborns soul begs for the artists touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes wit...”
