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“I think that the stories that God has told and the things that He has done seem utter implausible to us only because we lock Him into the tiny rubrics that the stories He has told and the things that He has done invite us outside of.”

“In God’s vocabulary, ‘lost’ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective ‘found’ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.”

God Found Lost Bravery Brave Vocabulary Erase Erased Adjective

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.”

God Impossible Bravery Brave Goals Possible

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“Never think that the existence of hope is dependent upon your ability to see it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Belief Ability Confidence Hopeful See

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“The nature of hope is such that it will grow in direct proportion to our lack of belief in it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Hopeful

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“I often wonder what it will take for me to finally understand that every promise that does not come from God was broken before it was ever sent.”

God Christian Faith Broken Confidence Promise Assured Understand Sent

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“If we take a promise of God and refuse to believe it, we must remember that it wasn’t God who didn’t deliver it. Rather, it was that we refused to receive it.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Confidence Biblical Promises

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“If we doubt the faulty nature of the foundations that we create, we might ask if we’re currently standing on one, or are we sitting on the ground looking at the last one that collapsed. And since we’re already sitting, maybe we’d be smart to ponder that.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Confidence Stability Reliance Rock Foundations

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“For some of us, the greatest miracle of all would be to believe in miracles. Conversely, the greatest tragedy of all would be to believe that you can’t believe.”

Believe God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Impossible Confidence Tragedy Miracles

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“Pray until the impossible is not.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Impossible Confidence Praying Battle Conquer

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“No waters can rise so high that God doesn’t have a boat for it.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Challenges Trouble Confidence Difficulties Waters

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“Just knowing that God goes with us changes everything about the place that we’re going, as well as the place we were at before we went there.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Peace Company Confidence Partnership Presence Availability

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“Any refuge other than God is probably something that I should seek refuge from rather than seek refuge in.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Security Confidence Safety Protection Refuge Sanctuary

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“Once I stare into the face of God, I can stare into the face of anything.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Courage Confidence Daring Face Face Of God

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“Peace is a state of being that is not reflective of what is transpiring around me, but is reflective of what God is doing within me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Peace Confidence Peaceful

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“It’s not that I don’t believe in God. Rather, it’s that I don’t believe in not believing in God.”

Believe God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Confidence

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“Hope sees what we can’t. And because we can’t, hope asks us to believe that it can.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Vision Confidence Wisdom Quotations Discernment

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“God’s faith in me always dwarfs my faith in Him.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Confidence Spiritual Growth

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“To rely on our own energy to sustain us is a ‘set-up’ that will be rather quickly followed by a ‘falling down.’ And to avoid either, I must engage God.”

God Christian Jesus Energy Power Confidence Rely Dependence Sustain

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“Far too often I attempt to create that which God has already created. And maybe what I need to ‘create’ is the understanding that I will always fail to outdo what God has already done.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Design Confidence Create Replicate Reproduce

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“If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.”

God Hands Christian Faith Jesus Fear Peace Christianity Confidence Anxiety Jesus Christ Nervous Peaceful Faithful Anxious Turmoil Confident Hand Faithless Unsettling Piece Unsettled

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“Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Christianity Confidence Promise Jesus Christ Hopeful Hopeless Hopelessness

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“With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.”

Ideas God Faith Lost Confidence Longing Wander Abandon Abandoned Beliefs Assured Idea Search Misguided Searching Misled Wandering Misbeliefs

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“I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.”

God Vision Strength Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence Thread Marvelous Self Image Self Hatred Tapestry Marvel Weave Wove

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“With God, we will never be backed into a corner because He is bigger than any room.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Failure Bigger Trapped Defeated Corner

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“It’s not about crafting a ‘failed’ solution. It’s about ‘failing’ to stop crafting ‘failed’ solutions. Yet, such is the destiny of those who have yet to understand that a solution that does not include God solves nothing other than solving nothing. And that is no solution.”

God Wisdom Jesus Failure Solutions Guidance Stubborn

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“I can pretend to be my own god, but I have an awfully hard time pretending that failing to be a god didn’t happen.”

God Failure Deny Selfish Foolish Narcissistic Egotistical Pretend Idol

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“After enough failed attempts to rescue myself, I finally realized that I am my own worst first responder.”

God Jesus Self Help Failure Independent Help Rescue Stubborn Save First Responder

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“Suddenly finding myself imprisoned in the ruins of the fortresses I created, I realize that that which I built to protect me has now become a labyrinth that is set to destroy me. And laying spent in the rubble, I finally realize that there is only one fortress and I cannot create it because there is only one God.”

“When surrounded by the ashes of all that I once cherished, despite my best efforts I can find no room to be thankful. But standing there amidst endless ash I must remember that although the ashes surround me, God surrounds the ashes. And once that realization settles upon me, I am what I thought I could never be ... I am thankful for ashes.”

God Jesus Attitude Failure Perspective Defeat Trials Thanks Rejection Hopeless Abandoned Ashes Thanksgiving Hopelessness Thankful Abandonment Discouragement Setbacks

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“Far too often, it is at the moment where we finally stand on the very precipice of some great thing that we turn and abandon it, for it is at these seminal moments that fear wins and greatness dies. The beauty of Christmas is that God steps over precipices.”

God Success Death Dies Jesus Fear Christianity Greatness Failure Succeed Jesus Christ Christmas Great Abandon Abandonment Fail

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“Hope is believing that there is something greater than us that can do something bigger than us in a way that had nothing to do with us.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Opportunities Possibilities

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“If I only go as far as I can take myself, I’m not all that certain that I’ve gone much of anywhere at all. But once I dared to look outside of myself, I realized that God hands out unlimited passes to the anywhere of everywhere.”

God Christian Success Faith Jesus Journey Goals Opportunities Possibilities Achievements

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“I might not believe in the possibilities, but that in no way diminishes the realities of the opportunities.”

God Faith Hope Jesus Belief Vision Determination Opportunities Possibilities Tenacity

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“My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible,’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.”

God Challenges Vision Impossible Goals Opportunities Possibilities Possible Impossibilities

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“To take this one shot at life and live it with God is to take this one shot and have it reverberate across and around my world as if it were a million shots and more.”

Life God Living Impact Opportunities Potential Possibilities

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“Being alert is not to vigilantly stand on tip-toe in order to scan some distant horizon out of the fear of some approaching enemy. Quite the opposite. It is falling to our knees knowing that God is already out on that horizon and that He thwarted the enemy long before they ever reached it.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Enemy Awareness Praying Knees Alert

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“It might behoove us to realize that isolation is the absence of all the senseless clutter, and all the incessant racket that would keep God from having ample room to show up and sufficient silence to be heard. Therefore, isolation may actually be the place where we are least isolated.”

God Opportunity Space Heard Hearing Noise Isolation Isolated Clutter Racket Hear Distractions Room Discern Ascertain Obstructions

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“The ‘gods’ that do us the greatest harm are the gods we deny having.”

“Your story is not written by those who abused the opportunities that they had to pen a line or two on the pages of your life. For your story is written by the God who’s story will erase all of the lesser lines of men.”

Life God Christian Jesus Pages Story Erase Pen Abused

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“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very kind of different power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”

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“Sometimes to destroy the monsters that we face, we have to come against them in the same way that they have come against us. But if I do so in the power of God, I might have come against them in the same way, but I have come against them with a very different kind of power. And in that sense, nothing is the same.”

God Christian Jesus Monsters Adversaries Power Of God Battles

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“The reason that life seems hopeless is that we’ve placed our hope in that which has none.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Deception Manipulation Hopeless Distortions

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“In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise.”

God Christianity Priorities Thoughtful Rushing Demise Hurrying Agenda Hurry Thoughtless Rushed Addendum

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“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.”

God Faith Christianity Creation Genius Jesus Christ Fulfillment Designed Crafted

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“To build refuges of my own making is to construct fortresses of sand at ocean’s edge, where the relentless tides of time will leave my most magnificently constructed walls as perfectly flat sand. And now that I am subject to the very tides that destroyed these walls of mine, I am left with the reality that my single and sole refuge can only be the God who created both tides and sand.”

God Security Safety Protection Certainty Sand Stability Tides Protected Refuge Sanctuary Solace Walls Abode Created

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

“Peace is not elusive. It’s just that we want to create it, which doesn’t really make it elusive. It makes it impossible. Yet, the peace that I have is in remembering that with God, nothing is impossible.”

God Peace Impossible Creating Seeking Peaceful Possible Elusive

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“If God didn’t design the road, you can be assured that it’s a very short path to a really steep cliff.”

God Wisdom Christian Purpose Jesus Path Arrogance Foolishness Road Cliff

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“If the light we have is continually engulfed by the darkness in a way that makes the darkness even darker, maybe we should think about getting our light from Someone else before it gets a whole lot darker.”

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