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“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams If there was a God, He would not have allowed this! And somehow weve conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to ...”
“Gods absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that ...”
“The world is shaken by major events, but it is transformed by slight subtleties. And while we may be far too small to create even one major event, we are just the right size to craft a thousand sub...”
“At the moment that everything goes dark, the sunset in front of us becomes the whole story. But if we find courage enough to wait until tomorrow morning, we will suddenly come to understand that in...”
“To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.”
“Too often fantasy is not a rich elaboration of life designed to enhance our existence, rather it is our pell-mell escape from life with the intent of exiting this existence. And the most imaginativ...”
“In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.”
“Tomorrow is the thing thats always coming but never arrives. Today is the thing thats already here and never leaves. And because thats the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit arou...”
“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.”
“Ethics are the things that say, 'Dont stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'Its okay because weve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that weve chosen to listen to the world an...”
“Faith is rare because fear is rampant. For faith will demand that I step into places that fear itself fears to go.”
“Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget.”
“With God, anything that stands against you will always be inferior to what resides within you.”
“You are silent now who once stood on battlefields ravaged by destruction unimaginable, holding in those desperate places the line of freedom for others you would never know, and who would never kno...”
“My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy ...”
“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely ...”
“When we choose to stay down, we are in reality confusing wisdom with cowardice. When we choose to stand back up, we are using wisdom to overcome cowardice.”
“Because a door slammed shut, we assume that our dreams were slammed shut with it. Yet before we surrender to a closed door, it might be wise to take a moment and consider the fact that any dream is...”
“Sadly, I put my dreams to bed long before they ever had the chance to get tired.”
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail to see even the smallest of things.”
