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“If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in...”
“The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.”
“The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that weve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperat...”
“Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.”
“Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what Im ignoring behind me. Instead, its most certain to drop it on top of me.”
“Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.”
“Love never lives on a one-way street, for it will always come back up the road bigger than how we had sent it down the road.”
“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a prete...”
“To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.”
“A label locks me into a definition that people use to control me. A vision graces me with an idea that serves to release me.”
“It is in opposing the worlds lies that we impose truth in our hearts.”
“While we tediously check our weaponry before entering into battle, do we check our hearts? For without exception, that is the greatest weapon of all.”
“Despite how utterly massive they might be, it is never the size of the arsenal nor the strength of the warrior. Rather, it is a heart bent on sacrifice that is the most potent weapon of all.”
“Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.”
“If my heart is set on pursuing real treasures, my mind must be fixed solely on the privilege of enjoying them and freed of the obsession of owning them.”
“I want to have the eyes of an adult to see the world as it is, but I more desperately want to have the heart of a child to make certain that I never forget what it could be.”
“We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we mov...”
“We ask, Why the need for God? Maybe the better question is Why the need not to need Him? And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?”
“You are not made in your image. You are, in fact, made in Gods image. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?”
“If Ive prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”
