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“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His story...”
“I understood that I was being shown the future: shards of what would come to be. Often, I cried out for the pain of it. But other times, I was comforted, because I saw, for an instant, the pattern ...”
“When we soak our soul in the grace of the Gospel, we'll find our desire to spend time with Him in prayer changing. We'll begin to carry on a nonstop conversation with Him in our heart because we kn...”
“When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires...”
“He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.”
“To the infinite, all finites are equal.”
“Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and saysI will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken toys, but as our Father.”
“If we take reason strictly, the perceiving of spiritual beauty and excellence no more belongs to reason than it belongs to the sense of feeling to perceive colors or to the power of seeing to perce...”
“God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever willfor us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.”
“Of what did Job repent? His wonder was too small.”
“We praise God, not because he needs our praise (for all glory resides in and on him), but in order to see him more clearly, enlarge our soul, and relieve our spirit.”
“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”
“We tend to believe that God's commands are given to us merely for our own sake. But this is not true. As those created in the image of God, our very nature as image bearers explains the reasons beh...”
“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.”
“Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.”
“Underestimation has its uses.”
“God is not just intensely personal. He is infinitely powerful.”
“TO BE asked to minister without an informing vision of God (which is what theology is really all about), however, is like being told to make bricks without straw. What keeps people going in ministr...”
“As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness...”
“Jesus never spoke of truth in abstraction, as something that stands alone. Jesus always spoke of truth in relation to God being revealed through himself.”
