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“Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.”
“We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless...”
“We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.”
“Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunit...”
“Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.”
“Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.”
“It’s not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don’t have. Rather, it’s about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the ...”
“We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.”
“We’re constantly presented with opportunity, or the opportunity to create opportunity.”
“I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that ...”
“Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant p...”
“To wait is to wisely resign myself to the fact that my ‘timetable’ is too often a ‘table’ with two legs that won’t stand up no matter how much ‘time’ I give it.”
“Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.”
“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”
“How many times has our conscience firmly prompted us to ‘draw the line,’ and we showed up with an eraser?”
“It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking t...”
“I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.”
“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”
“An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.”
“You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.”
