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“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Circles Possibilities Walls Horizons

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“The human race is capable of great things. But the greatest possible achievement that yet eludes humanity is the one that it may never achieve. And that is the willingness to bow before its inability to save itself. For if it fails to achieve this single thing, it is certain to ‘achieve’ the destruction of everything it thought it had achieved.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Ego Achievement Destruction Surrender Arrogance Inability

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“The well-being of my fellowman determines the well-being of this man.”

God Christian Humanity Jesus Mankind Well Being Man Fellowman

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“Mankind is on a mission to free itself from a God whose mission is to free us from ourselves. And if our mission prevails, we won’t.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Failure Greed Rejection Rebellion Mission

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“To end my life having exhausted the whole of it in the pursuit of worldly things means that I will die holding no things. But to exhaust the whole of it in the pursuit of God means that I will die holding all things. And the difference between the two is everything.”

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“Sacrifice is the pinnacle of our humanity. Yet, so many of us stay in the basement of our greed.”

Giving God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Greed Sharing Pinnacle Sacrificial Basement

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“If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.”

God Wisdom Christian Jesus Foolish Decisions Compass Cliff Map

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“If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ isn’t anywhere near my solar system.”

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“No betrayal is so big that God’s commitment to us and presence within us is not bigger.”

God Christian Faith Hope Healing Betrayal Presence Betrayed Abandonment

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“For if the nature of the story is such that my mother left me with deficits and scars, I can know that the nature of God is such that He will leave me blessings and health.”

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“I never want to view myself as sufficiently principled to shape Biblical ideals, rather than being sufficiently wise so as to be shaped by them.”

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“Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.”

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“Authentic greatness involves doing great things and then saying that I had nothing to do with it because God had everything to do with it. Anything else is my ego on a bender.”

God Christian Jesus Greatness Humility Pride Ego Selfish Selfless Narcissism

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“Choosing to ignore what I see to the point that I no longer see it is a formidable blindness wrought by the working of my own hand, And to be led by such a hand is to perish by the cliff that it is certain to lead me off of.”

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“Have you ever thought that ‘the blind leading the blind’ is about two people? The former assumes that they know where they’re going. The latter assumes that the former knows where they’re going. And that neither end up in either place.”

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“Blindness is not the inability to see. Rather, it is the choice not to see.”

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“I have had the privilege of meeting a host of people who are totally blind. Yet despite their blindness, these individuals possess some of the most remarkable vision that I have ever encountered. And every time I meet one these incredible individuals, I am forced to rethink what blindness really is.”

God Christian Politics Jesus Vision Society Ignorance Blind Foolish Blindness

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“It was always the magic of those dense snowfalls that bedecked the landscape in a whitened splendor and rendered the horizon cloaked to invisibility in winter’s frosty veil. And in the rapture of such moments, you find yourself pressed beyond any and all means of resistance to hold onto anything except the majesty of the ascending moment. And being held a willing hostage, it takes but a moment of these moments to realize that everything around you has been swept up in just the same way, leaving you joined with the whole of creation that is both quieted in awe, but likewise raucous in praise. And I wonder (in some very remote way), if the first Christmas night might have been something like this.”

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“I have no wish to stand amidst the accolades of men, even should millions of them shout my name in adoration. Instead, I would rather bow in the audience of God without a single man knowing that to be happening.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Praise Selfish Selfless Adoration Ego Centric

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“It’s not what God asks of us. Rather, it’s what He wants to give to us. And in a society that has focused on the former at the exclusion of the latter, we have fundamentally ‘asked’ that God give us ‘nothing.’ And if you’re at all curious about what ‘nothing’ looks like, watch the news.”

Love Giving God Christian Jesus Selfless Gifts Give Bestow

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“To refuse to sacrifice may in fact be the greatest sacrifice. For refusing to sacrifice means that I willfully throw away some of the greatest growth that life has to offer me.”

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“The choice to be bold is not some cavalier notion born of the fictional battles that grant us some needed sense of purpose and duty. Rather, it is the choice to accept a battle that we may not win and to bear the wounds of battle that may never heal.”

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“If there’s a reason why I keep my distance from God it probably has something to do with the fact that the closer I am to Him, the clearer I see myself. And maybe I don’t want that much clarity.”

God Wisdom Christian Sacrifice Self Awareness Distance Personal Growth Surrender Spiritual Growth

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“Love is the essence of our humanity expressing itself in actions of sacrifice so profound that we risk not surviving those expressions.”

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“Serving someone in the most sacrificial way possible is to willingly place ourselves in a position where we may need to be saved from those that we serve, while determining that we will forgo any such saving.”

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“God did not wait for us to believe in ourselves before He acted out of His belief in us.”

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“The fullest manifestation of myself is achieved when I ignore myself in the service of everyone but myself. And although humanity might scream the insanity of such a statement, the real insanity is to believe that humanity is sane.”

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“Oh that I would commit to the things that would demand everything of me instead of committing to those things of which I demand everything. For it is the commitment that drains me of everything that is, in fact, the commitment that grants me all things.”

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“When it comes to sacrifice, the glaring difference between myself and God is that for Him price is not a consideration. And while I hate to admit it, I find myself struggling to consider that that’s even possible.”

Giving God Christian Sacrifice Jesus Christ Selfish Selfless Sacrificial

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“When we say it is the whole story, the cross tells us that death is only half the story. And it is by far the least compelling half.”

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“Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.”

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“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.”

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“Sooner or later I will realize that the very things I most desperately need are the very things I am unable to give myself. Therefore, I will either be left despising the fact that I am doomed to live out a life that is perpetually empty, or I will realize that an empty tomb is the single thing that will eternally fill me.”

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“Easter is the final solution to the finality of death.”

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“A god of the ‘possible’ is no God.”

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“God emptied out that first tomb so that He could turn around and empty out me.”

God Christian Death Jesus Christianity Sacrifice Salvation Holiday Resurrection Easter Crucifixion Cross Tomb

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“Although I rail against it, death is the dark demarcation beyond which I am at the mercy of my own end. To the contrary, an empty tomb says that my end is at the mercy of God’s beginning.”

God Christian Death Jesus Christianity Sacrifice Salvation Holiday Resurrection Easter Crucifixion Cross Tomb

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“Easter is the invulnerable tale of utter selflessness where at an inestimable cost God did for us what He did not need done for Himself. And that kind of ‘doing’ happens every day.”

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“Do not share your faith with anyone unless you are determined to act upon it. For if you are not determined to act upon it, there’s nothing to share in the first place.”

God Action Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Determined

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“It’s not the capability of the tool, but the skill of the craftsman. And if the product that we’ve created doesn’t exceed the capability of who we are, we’ve placed ourselves in the hands of a craftsman who’s less than the God we need.”

God Christian Opportunity Jesus Ability Possibility Capability Craftsman Tool

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“It was the entirely unexpected and sorely welcomed song of a single robin in the waking hours of a new morning that reminded me that this day will not be what I make it. Rather, it will be what I permit God to bring into it. And so my prayer is that my days will always be filled with robins.”

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“If it’s big enough for us to handle, God’s not in it and we shouldn’t be either.”

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“Have we ever consider the boldness of Christmas? For to craft such a daring story and to do so in a manner that it is sufficiently sturdy to stand up under the relentless scrutiny that is certain to be brought to bear against such a story is boldness indeed. And when God pens a story He does so not fearing scrutiny, but inviting as much of it as any one of us can muster up, for God does nothing that is not bold. Such is God and such is Christmas.”

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“I think that the stories that God has told and the things that He has done seem utter implausible to us only because we lock Him into the tiny rubrics that the stories He has told and the things that He has done invite us outside of.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Bravery Daring Rubrics Adventuresome

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“It’s less that we’re missing the gift of vision and more that we have the tendency to obstruct it.”

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“Never think that the existence of hope is dependent upon your ability to see it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Belief Ability Confidence Hopeful See

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“The nature of hope is such that it will grow in direct proportion to our lack of belief in it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Hopeful

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“If I faithfully take what little bit of belief I possess and rigorously apply every bit of it, the mountains that once stood in front of me become a road that is passing under me.”

Life Christian Faith Belief Journey Confidence Obstacles Barriers Road Of Life

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“I often wonder what it will take for me to finally understand that every promise that does not come from God was broken before it was ever sent.”

God Christian Faith Broken Confidence Promise Assured Understand Sent

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“If we take a promise of God and refuse to believe it, we must remember that it wasn’t God who didn’t deliver it. Rather, it was that we refused to receive it.”

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