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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.”

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“I would rather lose the battle to my enemy than lose my integrity in the way that I fought the battle with my enemy.”

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“The exercise of faith is to risk moving beyond the logic of men and in doing so realizing that the real risk would have been not to move.”

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“The greatest act of strength is to acknowledge that we have none. The greatest act of faith is to believe that our weakness is God’s strength. And the greatest act of courage is to act on these realities.”

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“Strength is what is granted to me by God so that He might show through me what He wishes to do through others.”

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“If we want to build our faith in God, maybe we should start by understanding His faith in us.”

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“Dear God, grant me the strength that I don’t have to do the things I can’t do.”

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“My focus is not on the flood that surrounds me. Rather, my focus is on the God Who surrounds the flood.”

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“I cannot confuse the ‘battle’ with the ‘war’. For out of my weakness I am bound to lose a battle, but out of God’s strength I am guaranteed to win the war.”

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“Throughout our lifetime many people come ‘to’ us. But if they haven’t come ‘for’ us the coming doesn’t matter. And I would have us carefully consider that Christmas is God perfectly doing both.”

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“Prayer is the wildly liberating acknowledgement that I am not doomed to the smallness that denying God would sentence me to.”

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“God takes the impossible and makes it the inevitable.”

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“Sin is deciding that a momentary pleasure is worth a lifetime of destruction. And if true pleasure is of such character that it never invites destruction, then sin destroys us for something that we never got.”

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“The desire of my heart is to fill my heart with everything that is of God so that there is no space for anything that is of greed. For once I have been filled in just such a manner, the desire of my heart has finally become the reality of my existence.”

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“The amount of energy that I possess always falls wincingly short of the size of my dreams. Therefore, such a horribly frustrating contradiction has driven me to the singular conviction that the only dreams that God has given me are the dreams that cannot be achieved without Him.”

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“The only explanation that I can come up with to explain the passion that I have to do what I cannot is the existence of a God who can.”

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“God will always want me more than I will want Him. And it seems quite reasonable to me that the greatest way that I can expend my life is to work on closing that gap.”

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“Ministry is about changing the world by transforming the people within it, not by giving them some sort of emotional sedative.”

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“The next shooting will come. And when it does, we will do absolutely everything within our power to avoid addressing the real issue. And the only answer that I have for an insanity of this magnitude is that we are infinitely more committed to building a culture that feeds our greed than constructing a culture that rests in God.”

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“When standing face to face with myself, I far too often refuse to look in the mirror. When standing face to face with God, there is no place where a mirror is not.”

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“If I ride the winds of my imagination out to the furthest periphery of my soul their gusts will eventually die and my journey will draw to a halt at some abbreviated horizon. For there is only one wind who gusts who bow to no horizon and who’s course is set to sweep the landscape of the eternal. And that wind is born of a God Who invites us to be swept up into the breeze that leaves every horizon in its wake and eternity riding at its feet.”

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“How much is the impossible nothing more than a figment of a stymied imagination borne out of a blatant rejection of God, and gorged blind by the egotistical elevation of self? And if in fact I have done these two things, then the impossible is in fact not a figment of my imagination.”

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“Christmas is God handing us a dream that’s beyond our imagination and then gifting us with resources that are beyond our imagination so that we can make that dream real beyond our imagination.”

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“I can imagine all sorts of things. But can I imagine a God who insists that we imagine the impossible so that the impossible need not remain imagination?”

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“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

“There exists in nature an intensely impassioned drive to survive that exceeds any passion capable of being generated by an existence that itself is doomed to extinction.”

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“I want to have a robust vision for what God can do, but I want to have an equally robust passion to get out of His way so that He can do it.”

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“If I were to eliminate all of the things that I ‘want,’ I would be left with all of the things that I ‘need.’ And inevitably, such an action would leave me standing before God caught up in the stunning realization that in Him is everything that I ‘want’ and all that I ‘need.’ And how is it that I could not ‘need’ God and ‘want’ both?”

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“I’d rather not write my own story, for in doing so I have assumed that I possess a writing ability equal to that of God. And that assumption will result in a story that is certain to have a bad ending.”

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“Bravery is not the absence of fear, for then I doubt that anyone would be truly brave. Rather, it is passion clothed in determination.”

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“You have a God. You have a mind. You have a will. And somewhere you have a passion. And if you have enough faith to believe in the first and exercise the rest, you can achieve the impossible.”

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“The ‘death of me’ is most often caused by the ignorance within me that’s killing everything that God is doing around me.”

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“Once faith dies, the death of hope follows hard on its heels.”

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“To only see ‘death’ in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see ‘life’ in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.”

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“In walking with God it’s not about knowing the facts. Rather, it’s about knowing the God Who knows the facts.”

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“To attempt to know myself ‘apart’ from God is to choose to know nothing more than ‘a part’ of myself.”

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