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“If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?”

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“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.”

“Trust is earned. So is distrust. And I often wonder which of the two we spend most of our time earning?”

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“Lies would not exist except for the fact that the truth does.”

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“There is this magical idea of sitting underneath a seemingly endless canopy of twinkling stars and wishing upon the one that is the brightest of all. Yet, do I want to wish upon the star, or do I wish to trust in the God who is massive enough to hold the galaxy that holds the star?”

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“Confidence is a word born of a deeply primal wish. And it is rendered a wish simply because it is rarely a reality. We long for it. We hope for it. We engage in a myriad number of situations hoping against all hope that we can have confidence in whatever it is that we’ve chosen to engage in. Yet, the confidence that we are most often left with is the confidence that we cannot be confident. And the single exception that I have found is the God who was confident enough in me to be all things confident for me.”

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“If the alternative to believing in God is to believe in men, the myth is that there’s an alternative.”

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“Although it often appears to be the case, retreating to God is not an impulse bred of cowardice. Rather, it is a decision born of the understanding that God fights battles a whole lot better than I do.”

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“Trust’ in anything other than God is nothing more than a gamble in disguise.”

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“As the old saying goes, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” But that depends on what the hand is feeding you and what the other hand is doing while you’re eating.”

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“While ‘the buck stops here,’ truth shouldn’t.”

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“Trust that you can be the best of yourself, which is all that you can ask of yourself and nothing less than what you should expect of yourself.”

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“Truth has one agenda…the truth. Everything else other than the truth is an agenda.”

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“How often do we wonder if what we believe in actually believes in us?”

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“If you don’t believe that you are worthy of being loved, you won’t accept love. And it’s my conviction that the most unbelievable breakthroughs come when we step past our unbelief and act on the very thing that we don’t believe in. So my prayer for you is that you step and accept.”

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“If I don’t act upon that which I say I trust, I am doing neither and therefore I am accomplishing nothing.”

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“If you’re looking for reasons to trust God, you'll find plenty of them in the arguments to trust men.”

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“If the person that I trust the least is the one by which I set the standard for everyone else, I had better learn to trust myself more.”

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“The greatest strength is to acknowledge that I have none.”

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“Despite my frustration, the things that I’ve leaned on that are lying on the same ground that I am did not choose me. Rather, I chose them. Therefore, I chose the ground because I chose what couldn't keep me from being any place else.”

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“Faith in God is believing that the size of the giant never dictates the size of the stone. It’s just being willing to use it.”

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“I always ask God how I can do more. And many times the answer was that I needed the faith to do less.”

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“Obedience that does not have faith in that to which it is being obedient will mouth the words, but it will never walk the road.”

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“When I come to the end of myself it’s probably because God is teaching me how to find the beginning of Him.”

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“If I place any challenge into the hands of God, all I can see are hands.”

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“We trust many things that can't be trusted because at some fundamentally primal level we desperately wish that there was, so we settle for what we cannot when right in front of us there's a God that we can.”

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“If the alternative to believing in God is believing in men, then the answer as to why I should believe in God is not only simple, it’s blatantly obvious.”

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“Trust is what I give to others out of the hope that they will give it back to me. But too often the return on such an investment is that it doesn’t return.”

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“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.”

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“To refuse to right a wrong is to make it yours.”

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“Embrace what is ‘right’ and you will have concurrently rejected what is ‘wrong.’ Embrace what ‘feels right’ and you’re unlikely to reject anything.”

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“There’s the old saying, ‘if you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen.’ That implies that something’s cooking and I’m probably not the one cooking it, which means that I’m yet in another place that I shouldn’t be in. Any maybe that’s why it’s hot.”

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“To do ‘a little evil’ in order to achieve ‘a greater good’ is to errantly assume that evil is ever little.”

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“It’s not about declaring all things ‘right’ so that we can finally relieve ourselves of the guilt of having done so much that is wrong.”

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“This thing called ‘right’ is an ingenious compilation of the values that keep us safe from others, but mostly safe from ourselves…for on our own we do not seem to do either very well.”

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“Don’t pretend to be right, because if you are right there’s no need to pretend.”

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“The gap between what’s right and what’s convenient only gets wider the more that we attempt to cross it. And that’s why the only bridges are the ones at the bottom.”

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“Doing the right thing may come with enormous cost. However, the cost of not doing the right thing will cost me myself. And that is not a price that any of us can afford to pay.”

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“Quite often, the consequence of doing nothing is greater than the consequence of actually having done something and having done it wrong.”

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“Forgiveness is telling ourselves that the ‘wrong’ that we did will not impede the ‘right’ that we can do.”

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“Ethics are not the things that kill my fun. Rather, they are the things that keep me from getting killed by the things that I thought were fun.”

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“Sometimes it’s less about making the right decision and more about not making the wrong one.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Sometimes it doesn’t look like the right road because it was just a road to the next road.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Often in life, we draw conclusions and reflexively take action based on what we see; which in the majority of situations is achingly insignificant or just plain wrong.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Humanity is capable of unimaginable good. However, in the light of those who perpetrate evil, such good seems unimaginable. Therefore, maybe it’s time that we break ourselves free to ‘imagine,’ so that we can break our world free from those who perpetrate evil.”

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“My rights do not include the right to do wrong.”

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“It’s not about being loved by people. It’s about loving them enough to do the right thing for them even though they may hate you for it.”

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“To do something that’s just a ‘little bit less’ than the right thing is to do a whole lot of the wrong thing.”

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“I often wonder if people find themselves in all the wrong places not because they had bad directions, but because they live their lives fearing all the right places.”

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The Eighth Page: A Christmas JourneyRelated source material

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