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“Although it pains me, I must admit that I have never found what I need. And I am in this place because long ago I took it upon myself to decide what I want to need, verses surrendering to what I ne...”
“I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches Ive not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, Ive somehow yet...”
“To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever ...”
“Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my lif...”
“The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up.”
“To understand the mysteries of God we must move past the logic of men.”
“Despite my best effort to make myself as large as absolutely possible, life will always be larger than me. That simple fact makes God not only a likelihood, but a necessity.”
“The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”
“I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that Hell figure it all out anyway.”
“We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.”
“Rarely do I truly understand the disease which ails me. Therefore, rarely do I truly understand the fix that would cure me. And so maybe I should truly contemplate how rarely I recognize that God u...”
“It's through the cross that we reach the resurrection. We should be absolutely sure of this truth, and we should keep this cross hidden and not place it on the shoulders of others. It is our cross ...”
“A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.”
“Be still and know that I am God”
“The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.”
“At every point in the story of the transmission of biblical material from the original text to today we are dealing with the interaction of men and women with God. At every point, human judgment an...”
“I cannot tell you that the sacrifice will be light: it is a serious thing to stand against the whole current of an age; it is a serious thing to be despised and hated by the generality of one's fel...”
“There is no imagination wherewith man is besotted, more foolish, none so pernicious as this,- that persons not purified, not sanctified, not made holy in their life, should afterwards be taken into...”
“Hell, hell fire, the damnation of hell, eternal damnation, the resurrection of the damnation, everlasting fire, the place of torment, destruction, outer darkness, the worm that never dies, the fire...”
“When God intends a mercy for his people, he stirs up the spirit of prayer in them. Fervency unites the soul and directs the thoughts to the work at hand. It will not allow diversions and denies all...”
