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“The ferocity of the storm is always measured by the compass that we’ve taken into it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Storm Compass

“Most of the maps that I create go from the nowhere of where I am to the nowhere of what I think is a somewhere. For without God, my nowhere and my somewhere will not take me anywhere.”

God Christian Success Jesus Plans Calling Future Maps Mission Course Of Action

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“I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.”

God Wisdom Christian Christianity Opinion Wise Intuition Bias Intuitive Deceived Distortion Rubbish Discerning Rot Distorted Landfill Skew

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“Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.”

Life God Christian Prayer Christianity Praying Greed Selfish Selfishness Petitions Prayerful Supplication List Surrendering Requests

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“If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Arrogant Me Self Serving Myself Prideful

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“We dig wells that are less than a stone’s throw away from bubbling springs because we think that digging the well means that we don’t need to rely on the God Who created the spring. Either way, He created the water in both.”

God Christian Jesus Water Spring Rely Reliance Well Dig Lean On God

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“Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.”

God Christian Faith Prayer Pray Request Begin Prayerful

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“I am praying failure into your life. And I am not doing that to harm you. Rather, I am doing that to so disgust you with the failed promises of the world that you can do nothing other than turn to the God who has never failed on any promise.”

World God Christian Jesus Salvation Promises Disgusted Failed Repentence

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“I will eventually come to resemble that which I seek. Therefore, the outcome of seeking the praises of men verses the praises of God begs some serious consideration.”

God Christian Jesus Identity Seeking Consideration Seek Praises

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“The greatest rest is never determined by where I happen to be, but by the God that I’ve invited to be wherever I happen to be.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Peace Calm Invited Rest Walk With God

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“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas that answers the question of what all of these facsimiles were attempting to replicate, and it is Christmas that illustrates how badly mankind has failed in the attempt.”

God Christian Hope Jesus Christmas Holidays Replicate Forgery Facsimiles

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“The God-shaped void set in every heart rests in a perfectly preserved state in a place called the atheist.”

Heart God Christian Spiritual Faith Spirituality Jesus Atheist Disbelief

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“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us a moment of reprieve are nothing of prayer. Real prayer is first realizing the fact that prayer ‘is’ the pressing duty. And second, that real prayer is doggedly pushing everything else aside to deliberately act on that fact.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Praying Pray Intercession Power Of Prayer

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“Prayer moves everything behind everything that moves everything. And that means that it misses nothing.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Prayer Power Praying Power Of Prayer

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“I project my limits on God when faith would say that I should be projecting His limitlessness on me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Impossible Unlimited Projection Possible Limitations

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“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”

Heart Soul God Christian Faith Passion Jesus Poor Christianity Dreams Jesus Christ Empty Goals Emptiness Mislead Hopes Misled Vacant Passions Misdirected Pour Misdirect

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“Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.”

Life God Christian Hope Christianity Genius Destruction Christian Life Resurrection Affirmation Easter Lives Ingenious Crucifixion Self Sufficient Self Directed

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“Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.”

God Christian Jesus Trade Surrender Plan Ingenious Devise

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“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole where the shovels were surrendered to God that mark the end of holes and the beginning of water.”

God Christian Spiritual Jesus Water Holes Thirst Shovels Quench Satisfy

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“If anyone tells me that they’ve created the formula for living, what they’re really telling me is that they’re a fraud who’s deceived by their own fraudulence. And I can’t argue the fact that that’s a formula. But it’s a formula to keep me from finding the formula.”

God Christian Jesus Deception Fraud Misdirected Formula Fradulent

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“I am vested with the improbable task of attempting to save a world that has no interest in being saved because it has become convinced that what it needs to be saved from is the belief that it needs to be saved.”

World Christian Faith Belief Salvation Denial Save Salvage Redeem

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“We have heard it said that we need to ‘stand up and fight’. I would suggest that the most powerful way to do that is to ‘kneel down and pray’. The former might win the battle, but the latter will win the war.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Fight Win Lose Battles Kneel Spiritual Battles

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“Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams ‘If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!’ And somehow we’ve conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer.”

War God Christian Tragedy Murder Crisis Disaster Slaughter Massacre Shootings

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“Fear is what we’ve made something to be rather than understanding Who God is.”

God Christian Jesus Perspective Frightened Fearful Fears Exaggerated Fright Inflated

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“If I errantly define myself by the limiting rubrics of a limited culture, I will not even begin to understand the slightest fraction of who I am. What I need to realize is that God does not work in fractions.”

God Christian Culture Jesus Limits Brave Faithful Limitations Faithless Rubrics

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“It is in boldly unleashing our faith that we effectively leash our fears.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Courageous Daring Bold Unleash Leash

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“If I’m walking with God, not knowing where I’m at has absolutely nothing to do with being lost.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Lost Confused Direction Unknown Reliant All Knowing

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“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.”

“The first step in effectively fighting the battle is to get out of God’s way. The second step is to stay out of His way. And the third step is to never get in God’s way again so that the first and second step become completely irrelevant.”

God Christian Fighting Jesus Challenges Surrender Warfare Battles Relinquish

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“You are what you eat.’ And that fact applies infinitely more to your soul than it does your body.”

Soul God Christian Jesus Healthy Eating Spiritual Growth Spiritual Development Eat Spiritual Food

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“These are the times when our faith is not just an idea or a concept that we throw around. It's something that has to actually be lived out. We must rise to what we say we believe. And when we do, God rises with us. He walks alongside us. The exercise of our faith never comes back empty.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Exercise Initiate Proclaim Live Out

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“I don’t want to listen to the myriad chorus of voices that call me to various horizons, regardless of how pristine those horizons might be. Rather, I would much prefer to listen for the voice that created the horizons.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Calling Suggestions Voices Horizons

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“Might it be that I’ve lost everything so that I can recognize the fact that everything had become my everything?”

God Christian Jesus Security Worship Priorities False Gods False Security

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“I am terrified by the horrors that lurk all around me. But it would do me good to remember that those same horrors are terrified by the God who resides within me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Terror Protection Frightened Horrified Horrors

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“With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Christianity Impossible Jesus Christ Challenge Possible Improbable Believing Invitation Obstacle Probable

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“We assume the impossible to be just that…impossible. But when it comes to God, it’s impossible that anything is impossible. Therefore, if we understand this reality and if we dare to act it out in our lives, could it be that the word impossible is just an excuse?”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Impossible Infinite Possible Improbable Probable

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“Prayer is the choice to invade the impossible, not live out our lives hampered by the probable.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Impossible Praying Probable

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“To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.”

God Christian Challenges Prayer Christianity Praying Mountain Obstacles Goals Objectives Knees Pray Possibilities Descent Supplication Kneel Descend Knelt

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“How pathetic is the man who lives as if his existence is defined by the limitations of who he is within that existence.”

God Christian Faith Existence Vision Blind Pathetic Limitations Visionless

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“Me minus God makes the impossible, impossible. Me plus God makes the impossible, possible.”

God Christian Faith Hope Impossible Possible Minus

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“Give God a little more time to do what you would screw up if you did it now.”

God Christian Time Faith Jesus Belief Patience Surrender Impatience

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“How do I hold an existence as profoundly intricate, brilliantly ingenious, exquisitely beautiful, and expansive beyond comprehension to some time frame within which it will no longer exist? Would not these attributes, as resplendent and incomprehensible as they are, not suggest something bigger than the rubrics of time? As such, I am led to believe that we live in an existence that is as timeless as the attributes that possess it, and as expansive as the divine passion that shaped it.”

Life God Christian Time Faith Existence Creation Infinite Timeless Possibilities

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“I have never lost a minute praying. For the minutes given over to prayer always create hours given over to my life.”

Christian Time Faith Prayer Sacrifice Praying Time Management Communion

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“The coward will not live a life of principle because it will ask of him that which will expose the worst of him in the process of drawing out the best of him.”

Christian Values Principles Worst Integrity Ethics Coward Morals Best

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“The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me.”

God Christian Christianity Worst Bible Best Better Raw Material

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“I have stumbled my way through most of my life. However. God has kept me from falling all of my life.”

God Christian Fall Jesus Sin Salvation Mistakes Redemption Failures Stumble

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“The depth of the hole might be determined by the foolishness of my choices, but the foolishness of my choices never determines the length of God’s arm.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Mistakes Redemption Consequences Hole

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“One of the greatest lies is to believe that we don’t have value. One of the greatest mistakes is to act on that belief. And the greatest liberation is found in looking at the cross of Christ and realizing the enormity of the lie.”

God Christian Christ Freedom Christianity Self Esteem Lies Value Self Worth Mistakes Liberation Worth Mistaken Cross Misled Self Concept Enormity Freed

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“The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.”

God Christian Christianity Worst Bible Diminish Avoidance Avoid Idol Elevate Humanize Idolize Deify

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“Too often the nature of my existence leaves me viewing paradise as a myth of the most fanciful sort instead of a reality of the most factual sort.”

Truth Christian Faith Heaven Existence Eternity Myth Paradise Fact

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