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“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.”
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”
“Ego is borne of the need to ‘prove’ oneself instead of making the choice to ‘be’ oneself. And so maybe we need to begin curbing the birthrate.”
“If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.”
“We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.”
“To be ‘one’ in one’s own hands is to be ‘one.’ To be ‘one’ in the hands of God is to be ‘one’ that is far too vast to be counted.”
“I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize tha...”
“If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.”
“To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to de...”
“To assume that I can even begin to chart a ‘straight’ path is probably the best way I can take myself ‘straight’ to the very place I don’t want to go.”
“We have forfeited our calling for the simple reason that we’ve ignored the God who says that the ‘possible’ is never bound by the ‘probable,’ and instead we’ve dutifully heeded the god of fear that...”
“If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.”
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.”
“Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am ...”
“Of course I don’t want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down?”
“If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who heal the devastation of that destruction have come to be less than ‘noteworthy’, has our thirst to be entertained become t...”
“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
“The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.”
“Only God understands how incredibly far we’ve fallen, and only God understands how incredibly far we can rise. And only we can determine if we’re going to wallow in the mediocrity that is born of t...”
“We might do well to take a look at what we’ve crammed into our pockets as it will say much about what we’ve crammed into our hearts.”
