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“Mine is not to judge your actions. However, that does not mean that my heart is not crushed by my inability to save you from the consequences of those actions.”

“Death is rendered tragic when it finds us having expended ourselves in the endeavor of having lived for ourselves. For when it finds us at the end of such a life as this, it finds us in the company of no one other than ourselves. And that alone may be worse than death itself.”

Life Self Death Choices Selfish Self Centered Egocentric

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“Although I too often see myself as powerless, the fact is the New Year is what I make it. And whatever I make it is what it makes me.”

Self Choices Powerful Determination Personal Growth New Year Powerless Fortitude

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“To make a choice not to sacrifice is to decide that I am better off allowing a life to perish than release the resources I possess that might allow it to thrive. And because of choices such as these, the life that I am really allowing to perish is mine.”

Life Giving Choices Sacrifice Resources Greed Caring Release Choice Consequences Give Self Centered Choosing Perishing Sacrificial Sacrificing Perish

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“The desires of a man’s heart are many, and far too many of them lead to the exact same cliff.”

Men Wisdom Choices Dangerous Foolish Desires Hearts Passions Cliff

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“We can spend our lives decrying the injustices that befall us, or we can respond to the far greater cry that calls us to rise in determined force against them.”

Choices Cry Calling Injustice Unfairness

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“I can gaze into the infinity of a nighttime sky, or I can stare at my phone. And the insanity of it all is that I would somehow think that there was a choice to be made.”

Choices Stars Sky Investment Decisions Electronics Phone Heavens Galaxies

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“As the old saying goes, “You made your bed, now lie in it.” And while on a good day I might be able to change the sheets, God can eliminate the bed.”

Choices Sin Grace Forgiveness Mercy Consequences Forgive Repercussions

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“The choices that we have made created most of the burdens that we bear. And it is not until our burdens have begun to break us that we begin to understand that we have never stood more than one choice away from being freed from every single one of them. And that dynamic perfectly illustrates the stubbornness of man as held against the love of God.”

Love God Christian Choices Jesus Sin Mankind Man Foolishness Burdens

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“God’s distance from you is a perception caused by the foolishness of your actions and not by the reality of His presence.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Sin Perception Distance Actions Presence

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“The world brazenly touts freedom as both the inalienable right and morally liberating justification to mindlessly play in the filth that lies all around me. And the slight bit of sanity that yet remains within me asks, ‘what raging madness would prompt me to incessantly wallow in the very things that will eventually swallow me?”

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“My decisions staunchly preserve the box within which I live, when I should be pushing out the walls of that very box so that I can begin to live.”

Choices Safety Decisions Preservation Familiarity Walls Box

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“It's not that God is not pursuing me. Rather, it's that I'm not pursuing Him. So if I'm pursuing a reason for the fact that I'm alone, the pursuit is over.”

God Choices Jesus Christianity Salvation Pursuit Alone Redemption Consequences

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“The nature of our histories are always secondary to what we choose to do with them.”

Past Choices Opportunity Growth History Perspective Abuse Legacy

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“If life has left me hungry, it’s probably not for lack of food. Rather, it’s likely because I’m eating the wrong food at the wrong table.”

Life Wisdom Choices Food Ignorance Foolish Lifestyle Hungry Unsatisfied

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“Our choices reveal what’s tucked away in our conscience as well as what’s been thrown away.”

Character Choices Personality Conscience Decisions Souls Hidden Reveal

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“If you look into the mirror of your choices you will see the reflection of your character, unless you’ve chosen to remove all of the mirrors.”

Character Choices Personality Reflection Self Awareness Mirror

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“To forgo every achievement that would demand the sacrifice of our character is by far one of the greatest achievements of all.”

Character Values Choices Integrity Ethics Morals Achievements

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“I’m not interested in what you say. I’m interested in what you do. But more than that, I’m interested in what you do when no one else is there to see it but you. And because I will never witness those moments, I hope that you do.”

Character Values Choices Integrity Ethics Maturity Morals

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“It’s not about what we do today. It’s about who we are everyday.”

Character Choices Responsibility Principles Integrity Ethics Maturity Accountability Morals

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“Character is holding to our integrity when everyone around us is holding on to everything except their integrity and pressing us to do the same.”

Character Choices Principles Integrity Ethics Peer Pressure Peer

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“To ‘walk on thin ice’ is to demonstrate how thick my common sense is not.”

Wisdom Choices Stupid Common Sense Ice Foolishness

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“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.”

God Wisdom Values Choices Christianity Principles Ethics Common Sense Morals Choosing

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“The disciplined man refuses a life of lesser choices.”

Wisdom Choices Strong Discipline Integrity Determination Maturity Self Discipline

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“It is my hope that I will live today in a way that every tomorrow will become a great yesterday.”

Wisdom Today Values Choices Tomorrow Integrity Ethics Yesterday Live Morals

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“The paths in front of me are so numerous that it’s difficult to choose the right one. Yet I can rather quickly solve the problem by realizing that it’s not the paths in front of me. Rather, it’s the path above me.”

Values Choices Destiny Path Integrity Ethics Destination Morals High Road Road Of Life

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“All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?”

Life Choices Results Path Journey Regret Integrity Guilt Greed Priorities Confusion Outcomes Agendas Consequences Compass Direction Natural Consequences

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“I will either adamantly prioritize my agendas at the expense of the truth, or I will consistently bring my agendas into unrelenting obedience to the truth. And if for some reason you’re trying to determine who I truly am, the choice I make will tell you.”

Truth Choices Strong Integrity Priorities Authenticity Obedience Choice Agendas Accountability Courageous Prioritize Quotes

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“The fact that I can get away with something is the very reason why I shouldn’t do it.”

Lying Choices Principles Compromise Deception Deceit Manipulation Morals Steal

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“The squirrel had stretched himself out on a branch to soak up the sun in order to ward off the cold. And if we find ourselves always cold, it may be that we’re on the wrong branch under the wrong sun.”

God Christian Choices Sun Cold Ethics Warm Decisions Morals Squirrel

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“The majority of our ‘lines in the sand’ should be those that we don’t cross.”

Choices Lines Limits Ethics Boundaries Decisions Morals Line In The Sand

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“If we throw ethics to the wind, we will find ourselves on a journey where we’re always walking into the wind.”

Values Choices Principles Ethics Morals Immoral Unethical

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“If I’ve granted myself a wide margin of error, I’m probably going to have a slim chance of success.”

Success Values Choices Ethics Decisions Morals Slim Error Margin

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“Our actions must be directed, tempered and brought under the full authority of a greater calling. For if they are not, chaos, pain and a host of other less than savory things are certain to come calling.”

God Values Choices Principles Calling Ethics Morals Actions

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“Life is like a chess game; you have to think three moves ahead. Sadly, many people jump ahead and then wish that they could make six moves backwards.”

Life Choices Patience Strategy Decisions Thoughtful Reckless Impulsive

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“If I’ve created this road, it’s likely that my agendas define it. And although I believe the ascent to be lofty, it’s anything but the ‘higher road’ that I pretend it to be. However, if God’s truth’s define it, there is no road that is higher and there’s no pretending that it’s not.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Destiny Higher Agendas Destination Road Lower

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“The carnage of our lives can burn hot in the flames of our indiscretions, the greed that hung us on the very leash that we thought we had firmly secured around it, or the fool within us that thought ethics to be the hiding place of the visionless coward. And over time we have come to believe that the resultant carnage of these horribly errant ideologies carries a finality so irreversible that our lives have no hope of being anything other than the ash and smoke that we have recklessly turned them into. Yet, Easter is sufficiently formidable to raise ashes into lives of astounding beauty and turn smoke into the fragrance of hope eternally reborn.”

God Wisdom Choices Hope Jesus Salvation Foolish Redemption Easter Consequences

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“God has gifted us with both the right and the privilege of accepting Him or rejecting Him. And the immensity of the distance that lays between the outcomes of those two choices is greater by far than any other choice that any human being will ever make.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Acceptance Salvation Redemption Rejection Foolishness

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“The only time that God will kneel in the face of our selfish choices is to lift us out of the consequences of those choices.”

God Choices Healing Salvation Selfish Foolish Redemption Rescue Consequences

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“How do I come to believe in God? Immerse yourself in the alternatives.”

God Christian Faith Choices Jesus Belief Salvation Foolish Redemption Alternative

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“The biggest question in our lives may not be “What have I made room for?” Maybe the biggest question might be “What have I not made room for?”

Life Choices Space Focus Acceptance Priorities Decisions Rejection Question Room

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“Tomorrow is at the mercy of today’s decisions.”

Today Choices Tomorrow Future Mercy Decisions Consequences Repercussions

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“You are bigger than the choices that would lead you to believe that you are smaller.”

Wisdom Choices Self Esteem Perception Bigger Better Self Identity Smaller

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“What I wish to be falls short of what I’ve chosen to be, neither of which possesses the ability to sabotage what I can be.”

Choices Ability Determination Goals Possibilities Sabotage Aspirations

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“Your steps create the path that you thought you were following.”

Choices Path Decisions Consequences

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“Today will become the yesterday that you created, and which you will either celebrate or decry tomorrow.”

Today Choices Tomorrow Impact Yesterday Decisions Consequences Repercussions

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“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”

Wisdom Choices Foolish Consequences Repercussions Outcome Minefield

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“How often have our choices dug the cliff that we just fell off of?”

Wisdom Choices Fall Results Foolish Outcomes Consequences Repercussions Choosing Cliff

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“The biggest thing that I need to feel safe around is myself.”

Wisdom Choices Security Safe Safety Self Confident Self Aware

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