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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 worst that things get, the greater the opportunity to best the worst.”

Faith Hope Opportunity Change Worst Determination Possibilities Dire Worsening

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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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“My faith compels me to build a life in the expanse of what I can’t see, rather than erect some small hovel in the tiny space of that which I can.”

Life God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Heaven Vision Eternity Salvation

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“This life is a point of departure to a place where there will be no departures.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Heaven Eternity Salvation Endless Departure

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“It is implausible to assume that we are the sum total of this singular existence, for to probe the barest expanse of our depth is to set foot on the fringes of the infinite.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Heaven Eternity Infinite Salvation

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“Prayer is where I trade the rhetoric of men the for the promises of God. It is where I petition perfection instead of count on those who someone survived an election. It is to accept the incomprehensible invitation of God to have this weak voice of mine thunder down the halls of heaven and roll up to the throne of the God of all eternity so that as small as I am, I might have an audience with this “King of kings.” It is where my fatigue becomes a stage upon which God can unveil His strength in stunning fashion, and where my fear is obliterated by His courage. Prayer is where I rise above this tangled world and find myself enveloped by a world that I visit today, but will live in tomorrow. Prayer is utterly indispensable to this cringing existence, for unless I rise above it I will be consumed by the darkness of it. Prayer is this and does this and will always be this.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Heaven Prayer Impossible Eternity Petition

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“Prayer penetrates the underside of heaven and sends the full force of an invisible realm hurdling against the adversaries that are too naïve to understand what’s about to descend upon them.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Heaven Power Bible

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“It is not a matter of being broken, even though I am in fact quite shattered. It is understanding that my capacity to be fixed always exceeds the extent to which I’m broken.”

God Faith Hope Belief Hurt Broken Hopeless Wounded Tenacity Damaged

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“Vision is seeing what others can’t while fighting the people who believe that you don’t.”

People Believe Faith Passion Belief Vision Seeing Dreams Dreamer

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“Maybe the greatest evidence ‘for’ God is the destruction that we have caused in claiming to ‘be’ god.”

God Reality Truth Christian Faith Jesus Ignorance Destruction Selfishness Fact

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“Trust is only a wish that is never more than partially achieved, unless that trust is in the God whose reliability is nothing of a wish but everything of a reality.”

God Reality Christian Faith Jesus Trust Trusting Reliable

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“It is not ignorance that causes me to follow God, nor is it escapism through some rigorously contrived fantasy. Rather, those are the things that keep me from following the world.”

World Believe God Reality Christian Faith Jesus Ignorance Escapism

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“Without hesitation I would say that we should sing through the night. And that is not to say that we should enjoy the night or relish the darkness. I say that we should sing through the night because the darkness is only as deep as the light that is never more than a horizon away. And you will never find yourself in any night that is not turning in the direction of that horizon.”

God Light Faith Hope Jesus Belief Peace Christianity Darkness

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“God is a preexistent reality that transcends the world’s authorship, is untouched by the dictates of the world’s interpretations of Him, is invincible in the face of the most ingeniously crafted lies about Him, and exceeds the duration the existence of the world that says He doesn’t exist. And if we dared to hold all of the world’s cherished beliefs against such a penetrating truth, we will find ourselves left with nothing but this truth no matter how many times we bring the beliefs of the world against it.”

World Light Truth Christian Faith Hope Belief Darkness Disbelief

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“I have repeatedly found that the darkness is often the thickest at the very moment that it is about to perish at the hands of the light.”

God Hands Light Faith Hope Jesus Belief Dark Darkness Perish

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“We must always remember that the darkness might hide everything, but it eliminates nothing.”

Faith Hope Dark Darkness Confidence Hopeful Hidden Steal

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“If the candles that I am lighting are those that I have so cleverly crafted, a thousand of them or more amassed together cannot dispel the darkness from which I am forever seeking refuge. Yet, a solitary candle fashioned by God leaves the entire world a place where even the slightest of shadows has no refuge, and my candles no purpose.”

God Light Christian Faith Evil Jesus Darkness Salvation Good Candles

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“Darkness is the place where God is not. Therefore, if I’m sitting in a bunch of darkness I’m living without much of God.”

God Light Christian Faith Jesus Belief Dark Darkness Absence Presence

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“As I stand cloaked in some seemingly perpetual darkness desperately hoping for a scant ray of light, I ask, “Why has the sun never risen?” And I realize that it rose a long, long time ago. I just refused to open my eyes sufficiently to see it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Fear Darkness Sun Hopeless

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“I don’t define darkness as the absence of light. Rather, I define it as the absence of God. And in that sense, it’s never dark.”

God Light Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Dark Darkness

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“The darkest darkness that I can possibly imagine is the darkness that I thought to be light.”

God Light Christian Faith Jesus Lost Darkness Salvation Hopeless Wandering

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“A sunset is the end of a day now passed. Yet, for some reason we get caught in the reality of the descending dark verses the anticipation of a rising dawn.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Darkness Sunset Hopeful Beginning Ending

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“The darkness that follows a sunset is never so dark that it can change the inevitability of a sunrise.”

God Light Faith Hope Darkness Sunset Hopeful Sunrise Possibilities New

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“Darkness cannot extinguish the light. Only our lack of faith in the light can do that.”

God Light Faith Hope Jesus Dark Salvation Redemption Gospel

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“If you choose to be a light in this darkening world you must understand that far more people will choose to snuff you out because of what you reveal, than fan your flame in order to share in what you have to give.”

Light Faith Belief Dark Fire Candle Flame

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“This morning, the birds were singing before the sun came up. And in thinking about that, it amazed me that they would readily sing into the darkness without demanding that the light show itself first.”

Light Faith Belief Dark Confidence Anticipation Expectation

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“You can’t even have pieces of peace unless you have all of God.”

God Faith Peace Trust Confidence Salvation Surrender Redemption Release Piece

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“That deep, soulish kind of rest is found in knowing that I am simply being obedient to the God who is bearing the burden. And because that’s the case, the burden is never bearing down on me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Peace Stress Burden Rest Struggles Bearing

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“Trust is fragile. Yet, the forces that crush it are not. Therefore, the person who is willing to extend trust into an environment such as this must be fragile enough to understand the trust that they are giving, while strong enough to face the forces that seek to crush it. And it is this person who is not stymied by the shallowness of those who understand neither and therefore destroy both.”

Faith Relationships Family Marriage Trust Responsible Maturity Fragile Trustworthy Friendships

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“Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.”

God Faith Hope Jesus Heaven Christmas Paradise Discover Holidays

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“If you view the claims of God as outrageous, it’s because your vision is far too tame and your apathy is way too strong.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Bible Claims Salvation Redemption Apathy Promises

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“Apathy is convincing ourselves that we can’t change things. Oddly enough, faith is convincing ourselves of the same thing. However, the defining difference is that apathy places the onus of change on us, while faith places the onus of change on God working through us.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Change Impossible Apathy Possibilities Jaded

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“If ‘what is’ defines my view of the world, then ‘what could be’ will become an ideal with no breath of life in it. Hence, I refuse to leave something so lofty without the ability to breath, for once it is breathing it will start running. And I can think of few things more electrifying as an ideal that is running over ‘what is’ as it is raising up ‘what will be.”

Faith Belief Change Conviction Mediocrity Apathy Possibilities Breath Impossibilities

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