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“This week God clearly told me to get out of my boxes. And I rather quickly discovered that trading my current box for a bigger one was not what He meant.”

God Christian Faith Fear Boxes Limitations Bold Box

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“Faith is the thing that asks us to set aside reason for the God who supersedes it.”

Reason God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Confidence Logic Superior

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“Faith steps beyond logic, thereby inviting logic to something higher than itself.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Logic Invitation Superior Elevated

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“The absence of God in our lives is a result of our absence of reason, for if He is absent it is because we requested it. So, to have an absence of reason that results in the absence of God leaves me absent of both.”

Reason God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Logic Absence Maturity Discernment

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“To hide is our insecurities telling God that what we fear is bigger than Who He is. And in this case, maybe we should shoot the messenger.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Faithless Insecurities Messenger

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“How in the world are we supposed to engage life when we spend all of our life building walls to protect ourselves from the very thing that we say we want to engage? The answer is, I think, understanding that God doesn’t need walls but we need Him.”

God Faith Security Trust Comfort Protection Barriers Walls Self Protection Defense Mechanisms

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“With God, brokenness is nothing more than the stage upon which the impossible is about to happen.”

God Christian Pain Faith Hope Jesus Belief Impossible Stage Broken

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“My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Existence Human Jesus Christ Deny Denial Faithful Rejection Justify Justification Rejecting Faithless Reject Discrepancy Humanize

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“The gift of Christmas is the answer to everything for which there is no answer.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Answers Christmas Gift Questions

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“Unless we stand for something we will fall for everything.”

God Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Stand

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“I am compelled by the idea of a God Who would not demand that I ascend to some state of elevated divinity that I am entirely incapable of achieving. Rather, I am caught up in a God Who was audacious enough to descend beneath me so that I might be raised above me.”

God Christian Faith Salvation Christmas Redemption Divinity Rescue

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“It’s not wondering what God might do. Rather, it’s resting in what He’s already done that evidences what He’s certain to do.”

God Action Christian Faith Hope Work Prayer Answers Bible Promises

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“Inspiration is the willingness to believe that the worse things imaginable are the ingredients for the greatest things possible.”

Inspiration Faith Belief Inspire Ingredients Possibilities Greatest Imaginable

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“I admire animals, for they don’t question life. Rather, they just live it. And on that rare occasion when I reach that enviable place, I realize that I’ve been living a ‘task’ rather than living a life.”

Life Faith Freedom Living Liberation Animals Task Existing

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“If I'm on the 'short-end of the stick', there's a really good chance that it was my shortness of vision that put me there.”

Faith Vision Failure Comfort Disappointment Mediocrity Retreat Familiarity

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“To leave someone because their choices demand that we do so is not to give up on them. For even though I may never see them again, dear God you see them every minute of every day. And in the seeing, I ask that You see what I could not, and be what I cannot.”

God Faith Prayer Loss Relationship Rejection Abandonment

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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.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Imagine Relationship Understand

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

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Relationship Salvation Redemption Connect Reach

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“Underneath the chaos there stirs a great plan. And it will be birthed only if I give it permission to do so because I have exercised the faith that it’s there.”

Purpose Faith Birth Chaos Value Meaning Permit Permission Plan Direction Purposeful Birthed

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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.”

Love God Christian Faith Jesus Compassion Confidence Concern Sense

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

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Prayer Worry Power Alone

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“The impossible is always in a desperate search for hands set afire by a heart of faith. For it is the ‘fire’ ignited by the ‘faith’ that drives such hands to undertake the task of freeing the impossible to be the possible.”

Heart Hands Faith Freedom Vision Fire Impossible Determination Possible

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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.”

Heart God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Frightened City

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“The lyrics that I sing in my head dictate the attitude of my heart. And because that’s the case, I’d prefer the music of God to the songs of men.”

Heart God Faith Belief Music Christianity Jesus Christ Songs Head

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“I might have my holes, but the healing of today means that they will be smaller in every tomorrow, including the one that is now only hours away.”

Pain Faith Hope Healing Tomorrow Betrayal Wounds Holes Abandonment Losses

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“I believe that the healing for everything that’s ever been broken in my life was on its way long before the brokenness thought that it had its way.”

Life Pain Faith Hope Healing Broken Recovery Wounded Brokenness

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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.”

World War God Christian Pain Faith Jesus Belief Tragedy Crisis

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

Christian Pain Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Discomfort

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“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”

Self God Faith Belief Selfish Altars False Gods

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“If we were to tally all of the potential that was never unleashed throughout the history of mankind, and if that tally was somehow held up in front of us, I would hope against all hope that it would horrify us to a point of such despair that we would be driven to insure that such a tragedy would never be given any shred of space anywhere in our own lives nor in the lives of any life that we might touch for the rest of our lives.”

Self Faith Lost Waste Potential Possibilities Abilities Wasted Squander Squandered

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“It’s not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it’s a lack of faith within me.”

Self Faith Opportunity Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence Insecurity Opportunities Pessimism Insecure Self Doubt Self Confident Faithless

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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.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Loneliness Alone Fight Promises Battles

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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.”

Men God Christian Faith Fall Jesus Ignorance Salvation Collapse Hand

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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?”

Men World Believe God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Fool Chaos

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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.”

God Christian Religion Faith Church Sin Christianity Worship Greed Body Of Christ

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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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“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.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Sin Destiny Glory Salvation Redemption

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

Life God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Attitude Perspective Gift Precious

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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?”

Love God Christian Faith Jesus Sacrifice Christmas Gift Improbable Holidays

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“The only thing that Christmas didn’t change was our refusal to change, for God extends invitations but He does not demand that we accept them.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Sacrifice Acceptance Christmas Gift Invitation

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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.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Goal Christianity Example Tears Cold Reflection Jesus Christ Bitter Alone Hopeless Vehicle Hopelessness See Forlorn Role Model Reflect Model Conduit

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“It is the man without vision who sees only an ending. Yet, it is the man of faith who sees an ending as the very place from which a thousand beginnings will be birthed.”

Faith Hope Opportunity Vision Birth Beginning Start Ending

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“Anytime that man creates a belief system that is designed to elevate something to a position higher than himself his natural tendency is to assume occupancy of that position under the guise of that which was originally intended to be in that position. And if religion has any chance of keeping us from assuming occupancy of a position that we have no business occupying, our faith must be aggressively cultivated in a manner that nothing else is. Otherwise, we will be the gods of our own demise with the culture that we were sent to save following right behind us.”

God Religion Values Faith Church Ethics Greed Morals Biblical

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“Godly ethics have boundaries that are impervious to the installation of gates regardless of which direction they might swing.”

God Truth Values Faith Ethics Compromise Morals

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