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“The lie is that our circumstances will always loom larger than any solution to those circumstances, and therefore our situation is (and will always be) our forever story. But God says that our circumstances will never be anything other than a fleeting footnote because He is our forever story.”

God Faith Hope Jesus Belief Forever Eternity Story Fleeting Footnote

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“A few feeble words can ignite a miracle.”

God Christian Hope Jesus Prayer Power Promise Pray Miracles

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“An attitude of thankfulness keeps me centered when every attitude other than thankfulness promises me a center that it can’t find.”

God Christian Jesus Attitude Thanksgiving Thankfulness Thankful Centered

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“The drum to which we march reveals the conductor to whom we’re listening.”

God Christian Jesus Leadership Attention Leader Christianity Listening Following Hearing March Listen Lead Conductor Hear Follow Cadence Beat Follower Drum

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“God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.”

God Fear Deception Selfishness Pretending Actions See Deceptive Pretend Discern

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“If we elicit the scorn of men by being on our knees, it may do us well to remember that we have garnered the attention of God. And in the scope of things, that’s a trade-off that’s hardly a trade that’s off.”

God Jesus Attention Rejection Scorn Trade Off Chistian

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“I don’t think that it’s my belief in God that bothers you. I think that it’s your lack of belief.”

God Christian Faith Belief Atheist Agnostic Intimidate Bothers

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“Lack of faith renders all else anemic.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Weak Faithful Faithless Anemic

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“I must be reminded that God often seems distant because I’ve made Him smaller than what He is and my struggles bigger than what they are.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Bigger Struggles Distant Smaller

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“Pausing and scanning the landscape for a moment, he turned back to little David and with a subdued voice said, “You just have to have hope in something bigger than people, that’s all. You have to have hope in something that’s so big that if everything you’ve got is taken from you, you’ll always have more than what was taken.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Powerful Bigger Superior

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“I don’t know how we explain our existence without explaining something bigger than us. And if we can explain something bigger than us, it must not be bigger than us. Hence, we are left with God.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Existence Eternal Bigger Infinite

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“I think that we must come to the end of ourselves in order to understand that we are part of something much bigger than us that never comes to the end of Himself.”

God Christian Humanity Jesus Limits Bigger Infinite End Limitations

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“Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.”

God Understanding Prayer Praying Limits Bigger Communicate Pray Possibilities Understand Possible Inadequate Limitations Inadequacy Big Vast Articulate

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“Faith in God alone fashions the giants that slay those who have presumed to have fashioned giants by faith in themselves alone.”

God Christian Faith Bible Fake Fraud Giant Slay

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“My grandmother prayed on her knees until she couldn’t. And sitting hunched over in her wheelchair in the waning hours of her life, she would say that her heart was always on its knees even though the ability of her body to do so had long passed. And as long as I am able, both my body and my heart will remain on their knees because that is the only way that my soul is able to stand on its feet.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Grandmother Submission Role Model

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“You can’t change the hand that you were dealt. The fact is, there’s only one deck and only one dealer, and you are neither.”

Life God Purpose Creation Identity Providence Dealer Deck Pronouns Preferences

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“The ‘truth’ that we tell ourselves will always be inferior to a ‘Truth’ that will always be greater than ourselves.”

God Reality Truth Christian Faith Jesus Fact Inferior

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“Faith is the rock in the storm that ignores the ferocity of the tempest not out of ignorance, but out of a confidence that the lesser person cannot help but interpret as ignorance.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Ignorance Confidence Storm Rock Assuredness

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“To pray is to set in motion a force that will crush your skepticism about prayers ability to crush your skepticism.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Doubt Skepticism Skeptical

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“Prayer changes everything because it is inferior to nothing.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Change Prayer Transformation Pray Superior Inferior

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“The fool will tell you that there is no God. Yet, the fool is the one who believes himself to be what he is not, and God not to be what He is.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Fool Foolish Denial

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“Eons ago, the creative genius of God foresaw that it would take the shattered pieces of my ‘yesterday’ to construct the sturdy portal to my ‘tomorrow.”

God Today Creative Genius Tomorrow Future Yesterday Shattered Portal Bridge Construct Eons

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

“I can feel lost. I can work absurdly hard to stay lost. And I can tediously construct my life so as to never be found. And as a result of all these rigorous efforts I can certainly lose a sense of God, but I can never lose God.”

Life God Lost Defense Defense Mechanisms Flee Construct Withdraw

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“Our arrogance has convinced us of our ability to create the keys that will unlock the doors that imprison us. But we’ve yet to realize that only God can get us over the wall.”

God Faith Jesus Keys Prison Deception Deceived Walls Confinement Imprison

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“The existence of God is evidenced by our need of a God, but our inability to be one.”

God Christian Faith Redemption Idols Delusional False Gods

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“The worship of our disbelief is faith in inaction.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Worship Disbelief Faithless

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“God is confident enough in me to be all things confident for me.”

Love God Christian Faith Jesus Sacrifice Confidence Salvation Value Sanctification

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“If you want to completely destroy a child, all you have to do is mold them into your vision of what you want them to be. If you want to completely liberate a child, all you have to do is grow them into the person they were created to be. The former cannot see God in the child. The latter can see nothing less.”

“Raw power without Godly obedience is a long walk off a short conscience.”

God Wisdom Christian Christianity Power Conscience Obedience Guidance Godly Discernment Short Obey Guiding

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“My belief in God is constantly reinforced by the incessant failures of all of the people who declare that there is no God.”

God Faith Belief Failures Declare Reinforced

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“The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.”

God Jesus Leadership Christianity Jesus Christ Christmas Servant Savior Lead Crippled Cripples Oxymoron Serve Servanthood

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“Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Lost Struggle Battle Win

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“The ferocity of the storm is always measured by the compass that we’ve taken into it.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Storm Compass

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“God wishes more for you than you wish for yourself. And that’s because you fail to comprehend the totality of who you are nor understand the undying commitment of God to the fullness of that totality.”

Love God Commitment Personal Growth Personal Development Fullness Comprehend Possbiilities

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“Most of the maps that I create go from the nowhere of where I am to the nowhere of what I think is a somewhere. For without God, my nowhere and my somewhere will not take me anywhere.”

God Christian Success Jesus Plans Calling Future Maps Mission Course Of Action

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“I pray for sufficient wisdom to understand that wisdom apart from God is the stuff of opinion tainted by the rot of bias. And if I am somehow apt to confuse such rubbish with wisdom, I will think myself wise but find myself living in a landfill.”

God Wisdom Christian Christianity Opinion Wise Intuition Bias Intuitive Deceived Distortion Rubbish Discerning Rot Distorted Landfill Skew

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“The best way to see majesty is to strip away everything that pretends to be majestic so that which is fake wholly collapses in the face of that which is majestic. And God in a manger is likely the most remarkable example we have of such a monumental truth.”

God Truth Jesus Jesus Christ Genuine Christmas Fake Pretending Majesty Majestic Holidays Pretend Fraudulent Manger

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“Often we don’t see the majesty of God’s design because we’re caught up in the mediocrity of our own designs.”

God Vision Design Perception Blind Mediocrity Mediocre Majesty Blinded Majestic Myopic Shortsighted Shortsightedness

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“If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.”

God Jesus Imagination Imagine Eternal Jesus Christ Infinite Majestic Colossal Eternal Father

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“Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.”

Life God Christian Prayer Christianity Praying Greed Selfish Selfishness Petitions Prayerful Supplication List Surrendering Requests

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“A life of faith is one where we finally acknowledge that our compass never had a needle. And once we begrudgingly acknowledge that, we eventually own up to the fact that we never had a compass to put one in.”

Life God Faith Belief Guidance Compass Direction Oversight Needle

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“If I show up at my own fire, the ‘me’ who needs to be rescued and the ‘me’ who’s doing the rescuing are both likely to get burnt. And the oddity of it all is that if I choose to be my own first-responder, I can get burnt without a fire.”

God Fire Police Egotistical Pompous Self Serving Burnt Paramedic First Responder

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“If that which was created denies the existence of that which created it, the created will begin a process of rejecting everything associated with the Creator. And in time that will leave the thing created having emptied itself of everything and thereby creating an existence of nothing.”

God Existence Creator Rejection Ridicule Abandonment Nothing Everything Created Emptied

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“It is in refusing to recognize that we worship something that we move from the worship of that thing to slavery to that thing.”

God Worship Slavery Denial Idols Justification Refusal Refusing

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“If I only let God do for me what I do for me, I have made God me. And if I have made God me, I don’t have God or me.”

God Christian Jesus Ego Arrogant Me Self Serving Myself Prideful

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“We dig wells that are less than a stone’s throw away from bubbling springs because we think that digging the well means that we don’t need to rely on the God Who created the spring. Either way, He created the water in both.”

God Christian Jesus Water Spring Rely Reliance Well Dig Lean On God

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“Maybe the prayer request that we should start with is that we begin to pray.”

God Christian Faith Prayer Pray Request Begin Prayerful

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“If I lay aside the demands to be the craftsman and embrace the role of being the tool, in the right hands the impossible becomes impossible.”

God Hands Impossible Tools Submit Possibilities Possible Craftsman

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“I am praying failure into your life. And I am not doing that to harm you. Rather, I am doing that to so disgust you with the failed promises of the world that you can do nothing other than turn to the God who has never failed on any promise.”

World God Christian Jesus Salvation Promises Disgusted Failed Repentence

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