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“There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.”

“In the Bible God says, "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” God will listen. Not out of obligation. Not because you are a project. Not because you are a charity case. Not because God is checking a box. There’s none of that. The fact is, He created us to be heard by Him. Therefore, He can do nothing other than listen to us.”

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“There is that incessantly gnawing loneliness that leaves us ever-restless, eventually driving us to embark upon some endless journey supposing that whatever would fill us is held in some hidden treasure that lays silently buried in a yet undiscovered place. Yet, it would do us well to understand that this loneliness is no more and no less than the image of the infinite God ever-stirring within us and all the while begging to be unleashed.”

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“The battle is never fought alone even though we might feel alone in the fight, for with God the feeling of being alone never supersedes the fact of His presence.”

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“I desperately want someone to see the anguish of my soul, for to walk alone in that kind of anguish creates an anguish all its own.”

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“If God built the ship, lifeboats are unnecessary. However, if men built the ship lifeboats are also unnecessary simply because none of them will float any better than the ship.”

Men God Christian Faith Hope Confidence Assurance Ship Lifeboats Sinking Ships

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“I can choose God or men. If I choose men, I will ultimately be alone despite the sheer number of them. If I choose God, I will never be alone because He cannot be numbered.”

Men God Christian Faith Jesus Alone Choose Outnumbered

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“It is my hope that we do not need to fall by our own hand before we realize that we can only stand by God’s.”

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“It is the faith of the man that determines the size of the man. Therefore, in a society that raises up paper giants as fast as they fall, we can know that (although they are small by society’s standards), there are Godly giants out there that walk on paper.”

Men God Christian Faith Jesus Women Giants Godly

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“If you deem me as being a fool because I believe in God, I would only have you look around at the chaos and carnage in the world today and ask what kind of fool would believe in men who don’t believe in God?”

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“I don’t care what men say about God. What I care about is what God says about me.”

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“Run with God or crawl with men. Although the choice seems blatantly obvious, the world seems ruefully oblivious.”

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“We can walk to ‘nowhere’ and think that ‘nowhere’ is ‘somewhere.’ For such are the roads paved by men. Yet, the humility of a manger and the magnificence of a cross constructed a road to the ‘everywhere’ that forever abolished the ‘nowhere’ of men.”

Men God Christian Christmas Destination Easter Roads Somewhere Nowhere

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“I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.”

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“Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.”

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“Christmas is both an indictment of our sin and the resolution for it.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Salvation Christmas Redemption Resolution Indictment

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“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.”

Life God Christian Jesus Sin Mankind Infinite Glorious Definition Exhibition

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“The death and resurrection of Jesus didn’t scrub us clean. Rather, it purged us of everything filthy so that scrubbing was unnecessary.”

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“Religion is a framework designed for the sole purpose of enhancing our relationship with God. And at the point that it becomes the focus of our worship instead of that which facilitates it, it has become a religion unto itself. And that is a cult of the most cultish sort that I can imagine.”

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“I am left with no alternative than to look beyond the efforts of men, for efforts of those sort leave cities flattened, nations teetering, and lives crushed. Instead, I must shift the whole of my gaze to the God who tenderly kneels in the midst of this unimaginable carnage and effortlessly makes the healing imaginable.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Sin Hatred Salvation Greed Selfishness

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“In its wake, sin will leave all of the resources necessary to perpetuate itself. Therefore, sin may lead you to believe that it has left, yet that is all part of the staying.”

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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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“God has laid before us a wide road and a narrow road. And despite opinions to the contrary, He has not given us the equipment to construct any other roads.”

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“There are few things worse than wasting away in a prison that I myself constructed with such ignorance that I am helpless to escape my own construction.”

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“The phrase “all is lost” only applies to those that are.”

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“God poses no threat to me other than keeping me from being my own greatest threat.”

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“Although it might state otherwise, I don’t think that the world finds anything compelling that’s always shifting to adjust to wherever the world’s going. I think that what the world finds compelling is something so indisputably enthralling that the world is always shifting to adjust to it. And the only thing that I know that has both the power and the character to be that enthralling is God.”

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“Values are no longer the premise by which we shape our lives. Rather, they have become the pitifully abhorrent and wholly illegitimate obstacle to our desires. We have labeled them as some dusty set of antiquated ideals. These ideals served a generation that lived out its days in the backwaters of an ignorance fed comatose by intellectual stupor. Therefore, their value rests only in their removal so that hitherto unexplored horizons can be freely ascended. The problem is that we have yet to discern a horizon from a cliff.”

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“There is no space where God is not. Yet, I can eliminate Him from the space which is me. And if He has granted me that kind of power, I should probably be far too scared to ever use it.”

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“Of all the things that God could have done, I have yet to get over the fact that He chose us to fix the world that we screwed up. And in terms of second-chances, this is one of the biggest ones we’ll ever get.”

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“God has placed Himself squarely within the confines of my confines so that within my reach there lays the very thing that I need to break me out of those confines. Therefore, if I remain confined, it may be because I don’t understand that I’m confined. And if I don’t understand that I’m confined, I can be certain that I don’t understand my need for God. And that is likely the greatest confinement of all.”

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“It’s a matter of time. That’s all it is. For God will allow mankind to fall to its own demise so that God can raise us up to His glory. For the farther the fall, the more miraculous the ascent.”

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“Left to my own devices, it won’t take long before my conscience will be overrun by my greed. And if my devices are that faulty, I need to turn to a God who is not.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Weakness Conscience Greed Temptation Selfishness Faulty

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“The purest essence of our humanity is rooted in the willingness to relinquish the gift of life in order to insure that that gift is preserved in the life of another. And to take the hands of cowardice and reach into the depths of our soul in an attempt to rip those roots out is to relinquish the gift of life without preserving anything in the relinquishment, including ourselves.”

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“Life is precious regardless of how you choose to think about it.”

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“The greatest gift in any gift is that there was someone who loved us so much that they simply could not keep themselves from giving the gift to us. And by far, the best example of that ‘someone’ is God, and the thing that He couldn’t keep Himself from giving us was Christmas.”

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“To give a gift, we think that someone must receive it. But possibly the greatest gift is granting the recipient permission to reject it, for then we have freed that gift of every agenda that would render it as less than a gift.”

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“To make the gift truly a gift, God had to hand us Christmas packaged with the right to reject it, for part of the gift is the right to refuse the gift. Yet, the best gift that we can give ourselves is to refuse that right.”

God Christian Jesus Christmas Gift Right Freewill

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“A true gift is when I give you something that I can never replace so that your life will become something that it has never been.”

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“To be enriched in the giving, I must at the self-same time be completely depleted by it. For if I am not depleted, I have not given in the first place and therefore I will not be enriched in any place.”

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“All of us, minus the part of us we wish to keep for ourselves, adds up to none of us. And that’s typically what we give God.”

Giving God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Selfish Gift Selfless Self Centered

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“I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because that’s not anything that I would do. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?”

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“To embrace God does not involve some complex formula of endless dictates or the embracing of a rule mongering tyrant with a forever list of expectations. It simply involves saying “yes” to the gift of Christmas and “no” to every lesser gift simply because every other gift is lesser. And how simple is that?”

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“If I can somehow focus on the pain of not focusing on my pain, I will soon find that pain healed simply because I forced myself to do the exact opposite of what my core humanity demanded I do…I sought to heal the pain of someone else instead.”

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“It is when I am cold, alone, bitterly forlorn and shuttered from all hope that you will see who I truly am. And my goal is that at those most precarious of moments, what you will see is Jesus holding you through my tears.”

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“Your life may have begun when you were born. But your journey doesn’t begin until you figure out why.”

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“When Christmas has passed, if I find that I am none the better for having engaged it, the only explanation that I can muster up is that I can be handed the greatest of gifts, yet still have the emptiest of hands. And finding myself in that dreadful condition, I am left to assume that the fool within me has chosen to live with the hands that now define me instead of embracing the God Who wishes to fill me.”

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“On that first Christmas morning, the cries of this newborn were ignored by a world off to greater agendas from which this child would rise to save us.”

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