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“I might define a journey as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a trip as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly ...”
“Its not about the elimination of fear. Rather its about the elimination of the feeling that the elimination of fear is necessary before we take the next step.”
“The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would una...”
“Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies...”
“What excites us the most or likewise scares us the most is when something is exactly what it says it is. And when it comes to Christmas, were going to end up finding ourselves on one side of that l...”
“How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all Ive really been doing is running?”
“Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldnt let something be what it actually was.”
“Fear is a lethal killer of dreams, the greatest cancer that has beset passion, and a ruthless thief of lives stolen and buried in the decay of lives squandered. Yet the greatest tragedy of all is t...”
“What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is t...”
“By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.”
“The assumption is that if I expend myself for myself in the end all Ill be left with is myself, and that alone is frightening. But what Ive failed to consider is that I have to expend so much of my...”
“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”
“Fate and coincidence are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a greater purpose, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a Greater Being.”
“In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the si...”
“To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that weve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.”
“I much prefer not to fall, unless of course I am falling into the hands of God.”
“Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.”
“Either we are running from what we fear or running to what we fear. The former is a choice controlled by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.”
“The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.”
“Either we are running from what we fear, or running to what we fear. The former is a choice driven by fear, the latter is an action inspired by it.”
