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“There is always some sort of call rolling in from distant horizons, heralding something afoot. And these calls are not the things of culture or podiums or platforms, for the calls of distant horizons are far too grand to be held captive to such menial things. Rather, they are the calls of God and life and things majestic beyond imagination.”

God Christian Purpose Destiny Greatness Calling Seasons Ministry Majestic Call

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“Purpose declares that the trajectory of my existence and the course of human history were intentionally set to collide at this precise moment in time because what I have to offer human history is desperately needed at this precise time.”

God Purpose Calling Meaning Mission Call

Book:An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

“If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.”

Giving Sacrifice Calling Instinct Generosity Legacy Selfless Selflessness Memorial Day Self Sacrifice Self Preservation Destroy Save Call Legacies Memorials

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“Even though you left, I am grateful that I was able to leave a part of me with you. And rather than being selfish and somehow hoping that this part will always remind you of me, I hope that it’s less me and more the good things that I carried with me that might now help carry you.”

Love Relationships Marriage Couple Dating Divorce Break Up

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“A true genius recognizes that if they’ve arrived at a conclusion there’s a good chance that they’ve yet to arrive.”

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“The only way to fight the truth is to deny that you’re in a battle that you’re claiming to have won…none of which is true.”

Truth Fool Battle Denial True Fight Distortion Won

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“The true indicator that I love myself is that I choose to love others above myself.”

Love Giving Self Sacrifice Integrity Maturity True Loving Others Sacrificial

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“Abundance is not what you hold in your hand. Rather, it's what you have in your heart. And until we realize this, both will feel empty.”

Heart Empty Blessed Appreciation Thanks Abundance Thankfulness Appreciative Hand

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“A life is a precious gift carefully wrapped. But if we never see it as a gift or worse yet we engage it as a troublesome burden, we won't believe that there is anything to unwrap. And I doubt that there are few things worse than living life but never embracing the gift of life.”

Life God Jesus Self Esteem Blessed Gift Potential Talents Self Image Abilities

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“If it’s dependent upon me, it will likely land on you. If it’s dependent on God, you will likely land on it.”

God Christian Jesus Blessing Blessed Surrender Dependent Inability Depending

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“If even for a brief second I could have a sense of God’s faith in me, it would immediately expose my lack of faith in both Him and myself.”

Love God Christian Faith Jesus Compassion Confidence Concern Sense

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“The most sacred invitation that a person can extend to us is to invite us into their pain. But that means that we have to choose to knock on a door that we often prefer to pretend is not there.”

Pain Compassion Struggle Difficulty Companionship Door Invitation Knock

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“It is less that you are an adversary and more that you are someone with an opinion that (although frightening to me) might in some way enrich my own. And if I raise myself to being a partner with you on this mutual journey of ours, and if I refuse to bow to the posture of being a frightened adversary as you intersect my journey with a journey different than my own, we can profoundly change what we would have otherwise both died fighting over.”

Love Fighting Understanding Friendship Compassion Hatred Cooperation Joining Adversary

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“It might be an awfully long road sometimes, but love is awfully long on patience all of the time.”

Love Life Giving Compassion Sacrifice Commitment Caring Loving Road Of Life

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“My love will be complete at the point I realize that my love will never be complete.”

Love Compassion Sacrifice Empathy Concern Caring Sympathy Selfless Loving

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“The mirror of our mind always shrinks our reflection.”

Mind Self Esteem Perspective Mindfulness Mirror Self Perception Shrink

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“At my age, my mind confidently says it can be done. My body shakes it head and says it can’t. And while I typically complete the task that my body said couldn’t be done, my mind ends up regretting the pain that my body generously sends its way.”

Mind Body Pain Aging Decline Old Deterioration

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“To many battles are the fictional skirmishes of an unoccupied mind.”

Thinking Mind Fiction Bored Battles Skirmishes Unoccupied

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“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”

Mind God Wisdom Christian Hope Jesus Water Rain Man Cistern

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“When someone says that they’re going to give me a piece of their mind, that assumes that they have a mind to give me a piece of.”

Mind Opinion Ignorance Confrontation Piece Of My Mind

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“You really can’t have an attitude of ‘mind over matter’ if you no longer ‘mind’ about the things that ‘matter.”

Mind Matter Care Values Principles Integrity Ethics Morals Mind Over Matter

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“The old saying “mind your manners” suggests that we have one of the first, that we know what all of the second are, and that we plan to use the first to never compromise the second.”

Mind Values Principles Integrity Ethics Morals Manner Social Standards Mind Your Manners

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“Tools evidence the limitations of our bare hands. But they also evidence the creativity of a determined mind.”

Mind Hands Creativity Genius Determination Tools Goals Persistence

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“Effective communication is eighty percent listening, which you can’t do if your head doesn’t shut up long enough for your mouth to do that same.”

Thinking Mind Communication Listening Quiet Interaction Shut Up Mouth Head

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“A great mind without God is like a muscle car without a steering wheel. The only thing about it that’s fast is how quickly it totals itself.”

Mind God Wisdom Principles Power Car Ethics Salvation Surrender Morals

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“If an idea does not enhance the lives of those around us, it’s just a way that the mind is trying to figure out how to gratify itself while looking brilliant enough so that no one suspects otherwise.”

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“It’s when I start burning the candle at three ends that I begin to wonder how many candles I’m actually burning.”

Stress Burning Demands Stressors Candles

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“People often bemoan the demands in their lives. And in some sort of deeply lamenting tone they say, “Don’t you understand? My bucket is full.” But when you spend your life committed to a small bucket it might be full, but your life is not and neither is your rationale for complaining.”

Stress Trials Overwhelmed Difficulties Bucket Life Management Full Bucket Life Demands

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“Maybe the reason that I always need to rest is that I’m constantly trying to create a place where I can rest. And once I rest in the fact that I can’t create a place like that, maybe I’ll finally look for the God who already has.”

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“I’m not the author of my fears, but I sure feed them really well.”

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“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Prayer Worry Power Alone

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“It is my hope that my life was lived in such a way that hell will rejoice at my death. But if it does, it will have missed the fact that everything that I had written will have left me very much alive.”

Life Writing God Christian Death Hope Jesus Hell Legacy Author

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“Although the magnitude of my pain would scream otherwise, I cannot be so remiss as not to realize that my wounds are the precious salve that heals the wounds of others.”

Pain Suffering Wounds Heal Scream Magnitude Salve

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“The journey driven by the winds of greed are certain to run aground on the shoals of suffering.”

Life Suffering Choices Journey Greed Decisions Selfishness Outcomes Consequences

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“If we’re running, the need to run has likely outweighed ample consideration of where we’re running to. Therefore, the goal is not a cherished destination for which we strive, but a panicked reaction for which we will suffer.”

Running Suffering Fear Goals Frightened Reaction Flee

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“My uncle once said that the mark of a man is not that he is powerful. To the contrary, the mark of a man is that no one would ever presume him to be powerful because he held power lightly and always used it sparingly.”

Care Powerful Power Wise Respect Thoughtful Caution Meek Meekness Discerning

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“I listened to the breeze gently slipping through the trees and caressing their lush canopies on its way to invisible places. And sitting there, I realized that both were enriched by the journey of the other. And I wondered what would happen if we were to take a lesson from the wind and the trees?”

Care Humanity Journey Wind Concern Thoughtful Trees Lesson Sacrificial

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“Pure love will always add more to our lives despite how much giving it takes from our lives. So if we’re living with a deficit, we’re not loving with purity.”

Love Care Empathy Concern Sympathy Loving Lives Valentine S Day

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“I don’t need a rest from God. What I need is a rest from everything that is not God.”

God Care Christian Jesus Peace Christianity Comfort Solitude Protection Rest

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“Sometimes we have to pretend that we don’t care in order to protect ourselves from the fact that we do. And the thing that we have to pretend the most is that this actually works.”

Care Pain Fantasy Protect Caring Denial Justification Pretend Rationalization Self Protection

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“Minutes remain the same length whether they are held against the span of years or minutes themselves. Yet, when minutes are held against themselves, they seem so terribly brief. Therefore, we’d be wise to celebrate life before minutes are all that’s left.”

Life Wisdom Care Time Minutes Wasted Valued Cherished

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“Why should I care when no one else does? For the simple reason that the most critical time to care is when no one else does.”

Care Courage Sacrifice Determination Bravery Caring Courageous Fortitude

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“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.”

Giving Heart God Care Sacrifice Selfish Selfless Sacrificial Care Giving

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“We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.”

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“The greatest battlefield is the one in your heart. And to ignore that battle is to make yourself the greatest enemy on that battlefield.”

Heart War Enemy Ignorance Fight Battlefield

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“The impossible is always in a desperate search for hands set afire by a heart of faith. For it is the ‘fire’ ignited by the ‘faith’ that drives such hands to undertake the task of freeing the impossible to be the possible.”

Heart Hands Faith Freedom Vision Fire Impossible Determination Possible

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“Is not the measure of a man his intent to measure himself as less than the men around him? For if he does, he will never find himself looking over the top of their heads. Rather, he will always find himself positioned low enough to peer into their hearts.”

Men Heart Attitude Humility Humble Manhood Masculine Head Measure

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“If we would take but a moment to glance into the mirror of our responses we will clearly see the reflection of our heart.”

Heart Attitude Reflection Actions Consequences Mirror Repercussions

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“I love you too much to let you pretend that you’re something you’re not. And while there might be a lot of pretending going on in your head, there’s no pretending going on in my heart.”

Love Heart Identity Deception Pretending Pretend Best Self Identity Crisis Woke Culture

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“If the heart of a man turns toward self he has turned away from all else. And what a pitiful life to have missed the grandness of ‘all else’ for the smallness of ‘oneself.”

World Life Heart Self Ego Selfish Possibilities Self Centered Heart Of Man

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An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and JesusRelated source material

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