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“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”

“I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it’s louder.”

God Strong Challenges Quiet Stronger Obstacles Storm Deception Loud Barriers Promises Difficulties Storms Of Life Misinterpretation

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I don’t need to understand the unknown because I have a God for whom this thing was never unknown to begin with. And because it has always been known, I can take the fullest comfort in the fact that the solution to it has never ‘not’ been known.”

God Christian Fear Known Unknown Solution

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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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“If human logic were left to define this existence, we would not have an existence.”

Life God Existence Logic Reasoning Infinity Limitations Expanse Wonderment Human Logic

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“To assume that all knowledge is accessible to the instruments of science or human logic is to hold this existence to the confines of both.”

God Wisdom Science Knowledge Logic Infinite Limitations Expanse

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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

“To pray is not to bring the weight of calculated logic to the prayer, for that is our attempt to inform the mind of God. Rather, it is to bring the whole of our hearts to the prayer, for that is us pleading for the heart of God.”

Mind Heart God Prayer Logic Pray

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“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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“Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?”

God Christian Jesus Wonder Mystery Logic Residence Confining Diminishing Restricting

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“I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom.”

God Wisdom Bottom Foolish Release Guidance Control Naive Direction Pompous Ship Helm Captain

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“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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“The science behind a sunrise will never explain the joy of experiencing it.”

God Science Joy Wonder Experience Infinite Sunrise Fact Existenial

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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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“The greatest threat that I need to be rescued from is myself. Everything comes a lot easier after that.”

Self God Christian Jesus Threat Rescue Helpless Myself

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“Realizing that ‘possession’ is an illusion finally liberates us to possess something that is never an illusion and is always liberating; and that is the reality that we are God’s cherished possession. Therefore, life is not about acquiring possessions. Rather, it’s about being one.”

God Christian Success Joy Jesus Salvation Surrender Redemption Liberation

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“We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.”

World God Light Culture Lost Dark Sin Darkness Society Mankind Wander Man Hopeless Wandering

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“Are we so patently ignorant as to believe that today just happened? For the incalculable number of complexities inherent in a single day are leagues beyond the reach of mere happenstance, and the threads that seamlessly tie these complexities together are beyond coincidence of the most fantastic sort.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Destiny Fate Creation Calling Coincidence Happenstance

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“Many adventurers would say that opportunity is something that you find as part of a relentless search, or that it’s something that an imagination unleashed shapes and creates. And while all of that sounds bold and wonderfully fearless, it’s my sense that opportunity is more that thing to which we’ve been called by something larger than ourselves, and less something that is a product of ourselves.”

Life God Success Opportunity Fate Search Adventurer Bold

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

God Christian Hope Jesus Belief Christianity Vision Fate Jesus Christ Hopeful Hopeless Hopelessness Created Hoping Crafted

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“Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.”

God Purpose Fear Fate Creation Creator Author Coincidence Supreme Being Created Happenstance Intentional Authored Greater Being

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“There is this utterly fascinating rumor of a glorious sort of love. And even though we are crafted for it, the best that we can do is to catch the slightest hem of it before it slips away yet again. For we have yet to learn that what we seek is not the love of another person, but the love of God coursing through another person.”

Love God Christian Jesus Human Holy Spirit Lover Loving God Valentine S Day Love Of God

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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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“We have the choice to live in the squalid confines of that which is visible, or the breathless majesty of that which is not. For both are real, neither are defined by the other, and we will take upon ourselves the shape of the one within which we reside.”

Life God Choices Eternal Infinite Endless Shallow Temporal

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“Love is a feat that men can achieve, but it is an action in opposition to the nature of those who achieve it. That is what makes love the stuff of God, the struggle of men, and the essence of Christmas.”

Love God Jesus Struggle Achieve Divine Christmas

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“Light might be absent for a moment, but it is absence that evidences existence.”

Love God Reality Light Christian Hope Jesus Dark Existence Absence

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“Death evidences the fact that life itself is far too irresistible to let death be anything but a common in a sentence that has no periods.”

Life God Christian Death Hope Jesus Heaven Eternity Resurrection

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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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“You will finally come to understand the gift of Christmas once you realize that you are in desperate need of that gift and that you have no means whatsoever to give it to yourself.”

God Christian Jesus Salvation Christmas Gift Redemption Liberation Holidays

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“Christmas is the door that was ingeniously designed for walls that were not built for doors.”

God Jesus Sin Wall Salvation Christmas Gift Redemption Holidays Door

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“Christmas is handing mankind the solution to its own efforts to destroy itself while imparting the necessary motivation to stop engaging in that behavior.”

God Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption Self Destruction Holidays

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“Christmas was the decision that man’s sin would no longer be given permission to destroy the men who commit it.”

God Jesus Destruction Salvation Christmas Redemption Self Destruction Holidays

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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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“God closed the doors, because He wanted you to realize that He tears down walls. God didn’t move the mountain, because He wanted you to understand that the view from the top more than made up for the climb. God didn’t take away your pain, because that would rob you of the growth that will equip you to overcome all pain. God didn’t save your relationship, because some things need to die in order for better things to be born. God didn’t grant you your dream, because God’s not going to let you be held captive to the mediocrity of the ‘possible,’ when He stands ready to help you break the back of the impossible. God didn’t give you a lot of the things that you asked for, because He wants to save you from the smallness of your requests so that He can bless you with the fullness of Himself. No…God doesn’t always do things the way that we want them done. And thank God that He doesn’t.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Answers Bible Bless

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“Getting on your knees is the fastest way to get back on your feet.”

God Christian Jesus Feet Praying Battle Bible Knees Pray Prayer Life

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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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“What is life but God's daring invitation to a remarkable journey? And what is human nature but a staunchly inbred tendency toward self-preservation? And because of the rigidly paradoxical nature of these things, the road of life is seldom trod beyond a few scant steps.”

God Fear Vision Steps Journey Human Nature Confidence Calling Bravery Safety Brave Daring Mission Preservation Tenacity Self Preservation Beginnings Invitation

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“It is difficult to assume that nature itself created that which was beyond itself and then integrated such abilities into itself.”

Life God Christian Jesus Existence Creation Evolution Randomness Intelligent Design Happenstance

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“I am confident that God does exactly what He says He does. But I am also sorely aware of the fact that the limitations of my humanity struggle in their ability to embrace the limitlessness of the things He does. Therefore, I am forever thankful that my limits never define His, but that His will never cease to expand mine.”

God Christian Humanity Sin Limits Eternal Infinite Possibilities Limitless

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“Kindness is the lesser side of ourselves subjugated to something greater than ourselves.”

Love God Care Christian Compassion Kindness Empathy Sympathy Surrendered Subjugated

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“What I wear on the outside is determined by what resides on the inside. And it is my goal to wear kindness not because it looks good on me, but because it resides within me.”

Love Kind God Compassion Kindness Empathy Caring Decisions Clothing

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“If God’s not in the picture, then all I’ve got is a frame.”

Life God Christian Purpose Jesus Living Salvation Picture Frame

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“There is not a moment where a sunset is not happening. Yet, despite the fact that there is a sunset occurring at every moment of every day, no two are ever alike. And I marvel at the limitless genius of the God who handed me the privilege of living this day in a manner entirely unique to every yesterday and all tomorrows.”

God Christian Jesus Creativity Genius Living Privilege Variety Sunsets

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“Some of us are always waiting for life to begin. And I often wonder if life actually began a look time ago and we were too afraid to admit that it began.”

Life God Christian Purpose Jesus Journey Living Beginning Start Began

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“If I’m not living this life in conjunction with God, I’m not living this life. Rather, what I’m doing is living the lie that I’m living this life.”

Life God Christian Jesus Relationship Living Salvation Redemption Lie Thriving

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“The only thing that I fear about death is that it will occur before I’ve had the chance to really live. And it is Christmas that hands me the chance to live while it leaves death with no chance to steal any of that from me.”

God Death Jesus Fear Living Christmas Stolen Holidays Steal

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“Sometimes life has to strip us in order to save us.”

Life God Christian Jesus Living Saved Rescued Stripped Strip Salvaged

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