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“I am confident that God does exactly what He says He does. But I am also sorely aware of the fact that the limitations of my humanity struggle in their ability to embrace the limitlessness of the things He does. Therefore, I am forever thankful that my limits never define His, but that His will never cease to expand mine.”

“There is not a moment where a sunset is not happening. Yet, despite the fact that there is a sunset occurring at every moment of every day, no two are ever alike. And I marvel at the limitless genius of the God who handed me the privilege of living this day in a manner entirely unique to every yesterday and all tomorrows.”

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“Some of us are always waiting for life to begin. And I often wonder if life actually began a look time ago and we were too afraid to admit that it began.”

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“If I’m not living this life in conjunction with God, I’m not living this life. Rather, what I’m doing is living the lie that I’m living this life.”

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“Sometimes life has to strip us in order to save us.”

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“Why in the world have we never found what we’re really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won’t accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.”

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“Maybe the greatest thing that I can be thankful for is the fact that God set aside a generous slice of eternity in order to create a world brimming with amazing things to be thankful for. And because He did, we have fooled ourselves into believing that we had to create the art of being jaded just to cope.”

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“If I don’t ‘see’ life as a gift I might be ‘seeing’ something, but it’s not life.”

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“Life without a meaning that’s infinitely bigger than the sum total of my life is certain to calibrate a trajectory to a destination that’s not worth getting to.”

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“One of the greatest ways in which to understand the unsurpassing ingenuity of God is to hold up who we used to be against who we’ve become. But possibly the greatest way to see His ingenuity is to allow what He’s done to begin revealing the vision of where He’s yet to take us. And that is exactly the kind of genius that I will gladly bow before and give the whole of my life to.”

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“Dear God, give me what I don’t have to do what I can’t do.”

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“I can staunchly reject the notion that I was created to live in relationship with God. But should I do that, I will be unable to reject all of the consequences for which I was not created.”

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“In a relationship with God, it’s far more about the willingness to be ‘found’ and far less about possessing the ability to ‘find.”

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“I must pray with great earnest that God grants me the ability to imagine Who He is, as I am barely able to imagine who I am.”

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“If we’ve kept God far from us, we might ask how far we are from just about everything else.”

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“Of course I can’t reach God. But He can reach me.”

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“God is precise, deliberate and intentional. Therefore, everything He created held sufficient value for Him to create it. And of all things, that includes you.”

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“The purpose in our pain will always exceed the amount of pain that was necessary to deliver that purpose to us.”

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“Maybe part of my 'purpose' is to be convinced that I have one so that I can convince others of theirs.”

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“Do not be ashamed of who you are, for in doing so you are not taking into account the majesty of all that you are. And without any shred of doubt I know that you are a person of majesty, for in my innumerable years of working with people I have yet to find even one person who is not.”

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“Look in the mirror. Go ahead and look yet again. And look not at the reflection, for while this body of yours is marvelously complex in ways that continue to elude the reach of modern science, it is but a simple shell that holds the image of God within you. And if the shell is that grand, how much more what God has placed inside of it.”

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“We want to know that our worth is not altogether lost in the vastness of our obscurity. And I find it of tremendous comfort to remember that Christmas was the greatest Being in all of existence being born into the greatest obscurity ever imagined in order to declare that with God, there is no such thing.”

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“As far my priorities are concerned, there’s the front of the line, the end of the line, and everything in-between. And as far as God is concerned, He spends most of His time waiting to get in line.”

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“What's the purpose in all of this if there's not a purpose in all of this?”

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“I am far too often the author of terribly poor decisions. Yet I must rest in the unalterable fact that God says I am far better than what the sum total of those decisions would ever suggest.”

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“There is always some sort of call rolling in from distant horizons, heralding something afoot. And these calls are not the things of culture or podiums or platforms, for the calls of distant horizons are far too grand to be held captive to such menial things. Rather, they are the calls of God and life and things majestic beyond imagination.”

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“If it’s dependent upon me, it will likely land on you. If it’s dependent on God, you will likely land on it.”

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“If even for a brief second I could have a sense of God’s faith in me, it would immediately expose my lack of faith in both Him and myself.”

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“The mind of man is a cistern in a land where it never rains.”

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“If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.”

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“It is my hope that my life was lived in such a way that hell will rejoice at my death. But if it does, it will have missed the fact that everything that I had written will have left me very much alive.”

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“I don’t need a rest from God. What I need is a rest from everything that is not God.”

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“I’ve lost heart more times than I can count. But God has always helped me find it one more time than I can count.”

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“God has placed eternity in the hearts of men and has rooted it so deeply that we will never be able to deny His existence with any degree of sustained comfort. And that move was absolute genius.”

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“If the story of my life falls prey to the fear that roams the back alleys of my heart, it is clear that I have not invited God into the city.”

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“If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.”

“It takes brokenness to remove what’s breaking us.”

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“God’s trying to get your attention in order to heal the pain that’s got your attention.”

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“There will come times when the gravity of the events occurring around us will call us out. And such will be the nature of these events that they will demand that we act on what we profess. And the fact of the matter is, that time is never ‘not’ happening.”

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“If your faith ends when discomfort begins, you never had faith to begin with.”

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“Whatever place to which you may be fleeing, God was never not there waiting for you”

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“Dear God, save me from the very ‘me’ that I am unable to save myself from.”

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“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”

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“How big we are ‘not’ is evidenced when we stand face-to-face with everything else, including ourselves.”

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“I will either die at the hands of myself or live in the hands of God.”

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“Any evaluation of who I am is held to the sparseness of who I am without understanding that who I am in union with Who God is renders me capable of being everything that I am not.”

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“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

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“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.”

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