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“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.”

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“God says that you are enough. You might look in the mirror with a million voices screaming something very different into the person that you see looking back at you. But voices and mirrors lie when God never does.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence

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“They say that believing in God can be hard. But from where I’m standing, that’s nothing compared to having to believe in myself. Yet, the oddest thing of all is that God believes in me even if I don’t believe in either of us.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence

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“If I make something as small as myself, it will never be as great as I need it to be in order to help me quit being as small as I've chosen to be.”

God Jesus Fear Challenges Self Esteem Self Confidence Small Big

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“The world offers us a lot of mirrors, and we spend a whole lot of time standing in front of a whole lot of them. And regardless of which one of these many mirrors we choose, it will never be large enough to take in ‘all that we are’ in order to reflect ‘all that we are’ back to us. For God made you far too marvelous for the mirrors of men. Therefore, you might want to quit standing in front of them.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Reflection Mirrors Self Confidence Marvelous Self Image

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“The question of ‘who I am’ is bigger than ‘who I am.’ Therefore, I think it far wiser to ask the Great I AM who I am.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Identity Self Identity Personal Identity

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“Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.”

God Jesus Self Esteem Reflection Grateful Appreciation Self Confidence Thanks Thanksgiving Thankful Self Image

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“For many, God is the greatest annoyance because He has the answers for which we have no answer.”

God Christian Jesus Answers Annoying Annoyance Bothersome

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“Our prayers have two stages. First, we pray for something. And then second, we pray for the courage to deal with the rather shocking reality that the prayer was actually answered.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Answers Petition

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“Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.”

God Christian Jesus Answers Christianity Solutions Stubbornness Ego Centric

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“I want to ‘think’ that I have all the answers. But if I ‘think’, I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I ‘think’ yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess.”

God Wisdom Answers Knowledge Wise Solutions Insight Mentor Direction Counsel Guess Guesses

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Why is it that none of the things I construct ever make me feel safe? The answer lies in the fact that safety can’t be created. It can only be found. And the only thing I've found that’s never been created is God.”

God Fear Answers Security Comfort Safe Safety Secure Vulnerable Stability Exposed Comfort Zone Answer Created Construct

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“If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.”

God Christian Death Jesus Answers Christianity Sacrifice Salvation Holiday Resurrection Easter Questions Crucifixion Cross Tomb

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“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

God Wisdom Christian Universe Jesus Arrogance Narcissism Foolishness Self Centered Ego Centric

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“I simply can’t look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.”

God Purpose Universe Chance Design Creation Evolution Intelligent Design Myself Intent Created Happenstance

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“Maybe finding ‘peace of mind’ begins by realizing that ‘peace’ will never begin in my ‘mind.’ And if I spend my life paying such a thought ‘no mind,’ never-mind finding ‘peace.”

God Christian Peace Solitude Quiet Calm Peaceful Peace Of Mind Solace Peace Of God

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“I have long ago lost any interest in being in the majority. Rather, my sole interest is being with God, which oddly enough places me in the majority anyway.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Interest Majority Accepted Popular

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“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

Life God Christian Choices Jesus Calling Disaster Direction Paths Cliff

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Foolish Priorities Godly Godless

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“The oddity of our existence is that we are capable of digging holes deeper than we are capable of getting ourselves out of. The greatness of God is that He has a shovel long enough for every hole ever dug.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Existence Jesus Christ Holes Decisions Discernment Shovels

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“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Ignorance Foolish Abandonment Omnipotence

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“Sometimes we can’t quite put our finger on something important because we’ve got our fingers wrapped around so many other things that are not important.”

Important God Wisdom Choices Wise Foolish Priorities Consequences Unimportant Finger

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“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Prayer Guidance Discernment Direction Hurricane

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“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Tragedy Disaster Rejection Abandonment

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“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Lost Christianity Ignorance Responsible Stupidity Accountability

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“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.”

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“Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.”

God Choices Fear Satan Frightened Fearful Angels Paranoia Paranoid Exaggerated Choosing Exaggerating Devils Fearing Exaggerate Inflate Catastrophic Worse Case Over Exaggerate

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“God invites. We decline. And because of that single foolhardy decision we spend the rest of our lives ‘declining’.”

Life God Wisdom Christian Choices Christianity Wise Stupid Ignorance Fool Defeat Stupidity Decisions Decline Lives Ignore Foolhardy Invitation Invite

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“More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.”

God Choices Enemy Fool Foolish Decisions Acknowledge Friend Discernment Best Friend Sabotage Self Destructive Confess Admit

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“If men built it, it’s not a refuge. Only God possesses that kind of material and only He has the craftsmanship to use it.”

God Christian Jesus Safe Safety Secure Protected Refuge Fortress

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“May we as father’s pray that God would transform the men that we are in order to heal the wounds that we have caused. And might we kneel before this God every day so that the transformation never stops, but the wounding does.”

God Christian Leadership Prayer Transformation Parents Fathers Families Father S Day Wounding

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“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Circles Possibilities Walls Horizons

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“The human race is capable of great things. But the greatest possible achievement that yet eludes humanity is the one that it may never achieve. And that is the willingness to bow before its inability to save itself. For if it fails to achieve this single thing, it is certain to ‘achieve’ the destruction of everything it thought it had achieved.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Ego Achievement Destruction Surrender Arrogance Inability

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“The well-being of my fellowman determines the well-being of this man.”

God Christian Humanity Jesus Mankind Well Being Man Fellowman

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“Mankind is on a mission to free itself from a God whose mission is to free us from ourselves. And if our mission prevails, we won’t.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Failure Greed Rejection Rebellion Mission

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“It is not the gravity of the moment. Rather, it is the faith of the man who stands in the gravity of the moment.”

God Faith Mankind Confidence Man Gravity Moment Stand

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“Easter is a time where we are reminded that conclusions in man's mind are beginnings in God's plan.”

God Plans Mankind Spring Conclusion Man Easter New Beginnings Begin Conclusions

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“It would do me well to realize that the path that has led me to where I am was mapped by those who taught me and paved by what they taught me. Therefore, if God is not my teacher and His truth is not my topic I will find myself where I don’t want to be, having trod a path I didn’t want to take.”

Life God Truth Learning Teacher Journey Taught Regret Lessons Goals Destination Lesson Student Subject Topic Paved Instructed Mapped God S Truth

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“To end my life having exhausted the whole of it in the pursuit of worldly things means that I will die holding no things. But to exhaust the whole of it in the pursuit of God means that I will die holding all things. And the difference between the two is everything.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Commitment Priorities Pursuit Die Nothing Everything

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“I don’t know what’s worse; being afraid to live or being afraid to die. Yet, the thing about Christmas is that it eliminates both.”

God Jesus Fear Christmas Live Die Afraid Holidays

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“Sacrifice is the pinnacle of our humanity. Yet, so many of us stay in the basement of our greed.”

Giving God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Greed Sharing Pinnacle Sacrificial Basement

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“It’s not so much about the difficult place that I’m at, although that’s what’s probably got most of my attention. Rather, it’s more about how I got here. Because whatever that is, if I don’t change it I’m going to live out the whole of my life is some pretty similar places.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Depression Stupidity Foolish Decisions Problems Discernment

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“If I end up at the edge of this cliff one more time than the number of times I’ve walked away from it, I need to burn my map, trade in my compass and ask God for a new set.”

God Wisdom Christian Jesus Foolish Decisions Compass Cliff Map

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“If my decisions constantly heed the voice of the world, I can be completely assured that I’m going to end up in a ‘world of hurt.’ If my decisions heed the word of God, I can be completely assured that this ‘world of hurt’ isn’t anywhere near my solar system.”

God Christian Christianity Influence Painful Decisions Obedient Hurting Influenced

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“My wisdom absent of God’s wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.”

God Wisdom Fool Absence Foolish Decisions Decision Making Foolishness Absent Discernment Immature Immaturity Acumen Guess

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“I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I’d be if I’d have gone forward in the first place.”

God Success Steps Dreams Goals Decisions Endeavor Hopes Passions Forward Backward

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“No betrayal is so big that God’s commitment to us and presence within us is not bigger.”

God Christian Faith Hope Healing Betrayal Presence Betrayed Abandonment

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“For if the nature of the story is such that my mother left me with deficits and scars, I can know that the nature of God is such that He will leave me blessings and health.”

God Christian Pain Jesus Parent Family Mom Mothers Child Mothers Day

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“To lead is to serve. Conversely, to serve is to lead. And if either of these elements are removed from the equation, we’ll soon find that we’re doing neither.”

God Jesus Leadership Leader Humility Humble Servant Lead Serve Servanthood

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“Without as much as a single question, legions of geese lift themselves to autumn’s skies, obediently heeding the distant call of southern horizons. And I think that it’s less the magnificence of their trek, and more about the humility of their obedience to the trek. For if I was left with a single prayer to utter, it would be to be more like them.”

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