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“It is not within my power to refuse the journey of life regardless of the nature of my fears or the depth of my selfishness, for the definitions of journey and life are indistinguishably synonymous...”
“We know enough to know that all of this is not quite right. And we know enough to know that settling for whats not quite right is quite wrong.”
“The sacrifice of self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the bedrock of the greatest nations. The sacrifice for self is the most pathetic calling imaginable, and it ...”
“Discerning the difference between a dictator and a leader is quite easy. The former cannot help but see leading and serving as stark contradictions that by their very nature are utterly incompatibl...”
“I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.”
“If I see only my bias, I have surrendered to a single myopic lens through which to view the world. If I dare to surrender my bias, I will spend the rest of my life seeing the world and throwing awa...”
“It is my wish and most cherished hope that God would be pleased with my legacy, that lives would be changed by it, and that the world would be immeasurably better because I was privileged to leave ...”
“Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I ...”
“Maybe I need to immerse the fabric of my soul in torrential nature of Christmas, and in doing so to finally understand that it is the very thing that can make the world what I so wish it were.”
“Apathy is giving up when we need to get up.”
“I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave ...”
“I dont necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I dont wait around for an invitation to stand back up either.”
“It wasnt until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving through life without driving in life. So, Ive decided to walk because the pace is slower ...”
“Its really a rather simple thing to bring balance to my anger. All I need to do is remember that the hand of cards that have been dealt to me pale in comparison to the deck of cards that Ive thrown...”
“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it.”
“If safety is my goal, living life is not.”
“We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.”
“If were missing life its probably because were expecting it to reveal itself to us, rather than realizing that life is revealed by us looking for it.”
“The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.”
“The worst denial of all is being in denial that were in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if thats not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.”
