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“There will come times when the gravity of the events occurring around us will call us out. And such will be the nature of these events that they will demand that we act on what we profess. And the fact of the matter is, that time is never ‘not’ happening.”

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“Whatever place to which you may be fleeing, God was never not there waiting for you”

Love God Christian Jesus Waiting Salvation Redemption Fleeing

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“Once you realize that you can’t rescue yourself you’ve taken the first step toward rescuing yourself.”

Self God Jesus Ego Salvation Christmas Rescue Egotistical First Responder

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“If we believe that the rational for betraying God could ever justify the betrayal itself, we have shown that we possess the ability to betray anything, including ourselves.”

Self God Betrayal Denial Rejection Justify Betray Justification Ourselves

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“Dear God, save me from the very ‘me’ that I am unable to save myself from.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Help Me Save Myself

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“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”

Self God Faith Belief Selfish Altars False Gods

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“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”

Self God Christian Jesus Selfish Narcissistic Self Destruction Ego Centric

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“How big we are ‘not’ is evidenced when we stand face-to-face with everything else, including ourselves.”

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“I will either die at the hands of myself or live in the hands of God.”

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“Any evaluation of who I am is held to the sparseness of who I am without understanding that who I am in union with Who God is renders me capable of being everything that I am not.”

Self God Christian Jesus Impossible Limits Finite Limitations Self Understanding Self Assessment

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“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Selfish Rescue Self Centered Save Ego Centric

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“The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”

Self God Ego Foolish Deceived Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical

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“I don’t want to praise myself. Rather, I want to praise the thing that saves me from myself. Hence there is God.”

Self God Christian Jesus Praise Salvation Rescue Save Retrieve

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“You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?”

Self God Christian Jesus Identity Reflection Mirror Image Self Concept

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“There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.”

“If I am indeed my own god, I’d better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.”

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“I take my cues from the world around me and carefully paint a self-portrait that the world can’t help but accept. However, I would be much wiser to put down all such artistic notions and hold up the portrait of me painted by God simply because that is a picture at which the world can’t help but marvel.”

Self God Self Esteem Self Confidence Artistic Self Understanding Self Perception Self Concept Portrait

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“Prayer is one action where I lay aside my abilities to immerse myself wholly in God’s capabilities. And the liberation found in such an action is less about being engaged with God and more about being freed from myself.”

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“In the Bible God says, "Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” God will listen. Not out of obligation. Not because you are a project. Not because you are a charity case. Not because God is checking a box. There’s none of that. The fact is, He created us to be heard by Him. Therefore, He can do nothing other than listen to us.”

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“There is that incessantly gnawing loneliness that leaves us ever-restless, eventually driving us to embark upon some endless journey supposing that whatever would fill us is held in some hidden treasure that lays silently buried in a yet undiscovered place. Yet, it would do us well to understand that this loneliness is no more and no less than the image of the infinite God ever-stirring within us and all the while begging to be unleashed.”

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“The battle is never fought alone even though we might feel alone in the fight, for with God the feeling of being alone never supersedes the fact of His presence.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Loneliness Alone Fight Promises Battles

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“I desperately want someone to see the anguish of my soul, for to walk alone in that kind of anguish creates an anguish all its own.”

Soul God Christian Pain Jesus Loneliness Isolation Anguish Abandonment

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“If God built the ship, lifeboats are unnecessary. However, if men built the ship lifeboats are also unnecessary simply because none of them will float any better than the ship.”

Men God Christian Faith Hope Confidence Assurance Ship Lifeboats Sinking Ships

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“I can choose God or men. If I choose men, I will ultimately be alone despite the sheer number of them. If I choose God, I will never be alone because He cannot be numbered.”

Men God Christian Faith Jesus Alone Choose Outnumbered

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“It is my hope that we do not need to fall by our own hand before we realize that we can only stand by God’s.”

Men God Christian Faith Fall Jesus Ignorance Salvation Collapse Hand

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“It is the faith of the man that determines the size of the man. Therefore, in a society that raises up paper giants as fast as they fall, we can know that (although they are small by society’s standards), there are Godly giants out there that walk on paper.”

Men God Christian Faith Jesus Women Giants Godly

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“If you deem me as being a fool because I believe in God, I would only have you look around at the chaos and carnage in the world today and ask what kind of fool would believe in men who don’t believe in God?”

Men World Believe God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Fool Chaos

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“I don’t care what men say about God. What I care about is what God says about me.”

Men God Truth Christian Jesus Self Esteem Identity Self Confidence Gossip Fact

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“Run with God or crawl with men. Although the choice seems blatantly obvious, the world seems ruefully oblivious.”

Men World God Wisdom Christian Jesus Sin Obvious Foolishness Oblivious

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“We can walk to ‘nowhere’ and think that ‘nowhere’ is ‘somewhere.’ For such are the roads paved by men. Yet, the humility of a manger and the magnificence of a cross constructed a road to the ‘everywhere’ that forever abolished the ‘nowhere’ of men.”

Men God Christian Christmas Destination Easter Roads Somewhere Nowhere

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“I have yet to learn that I am not designed to carry the burden of men. Rather, I am designed to carry the love of God so that I might soothe the burden of men.”

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“Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.”

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“Greatness untethered from God results in calamity unrestrained by men.”

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“Men can dig wells, but they can’t create water.”

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“We live in a world inundated with an artistry so utterly compelling that not a single living thing is untouched by its extravagant genius. And of all of those living things, we are the ones blessed with the capacity to understand this perpetually generous miracle. Yet, we are the very ones that miss it.”

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“Christmas is both an indictment of our sin and the resolution for it.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Salvation Christmas Redemption Resolution Indictment

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“There is far more to this existence than how men have defined it through the exhibition of their limitations.”

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“The death and resurrection of Jesus didn’t scrub us clean. Rather, it purged us of everything filthy so that scrubbing was unnecessary.”

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“Religion is a framework designed for the sole purpose of enhancing our relationship with God. And at the point that it becomes the focus of our worship instead of that which facilitates it, it has become a religion unto itself. And that is a cult of the most cultish sort that I can imagine.”

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“I am left with no alternative than to look beyond the efforts of men, for efforts of those sort leave cities flattened, nations teetering, and lives crushed. Instead, I must shift the whole of my gaze to the God who tenderly kneels in the midst of this unimaginable carnage and effortlessly makes the healing imaginable.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Sin Hatred Salvation Greed Selfishness

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“The choices that we have made created most of the burdens that we bear. And it is not until our burdens have begun to break us that we begin to understand that we have never stood more than one choice away from being freed from every single one of them. And that dynamic perfectly illustrates the stubbornness of man as held against the love of God.”

Love God Christian Choices Jesus Sin Mankind Man Foolishness Burdens

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“God’s distance from you is a perception caused by the foolishness of your actions and not by the reality of His presence.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Sin Perception Distance Actions Presence

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“God has laid before us a wide road and a narrow road. And despite opinions to the contrary, He has not given us the equipment to construct any other roads.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Salvation Wide Redemption Rejection Road Narrow

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“There are few things worse than wasting away in a prison that I myself constructed with such ignorance that I am helpless to escape my own construction.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Salvation Prison Consequences Construct Bound

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“The phrase “all is lost” only applies to those that are.”

God Christian Hope Jesus Lost Sin Salvation Redemption Hopeless

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“God poses no threat to me other than keeping me from being my own greatest threat.”

God Christian Jesus Sin Salvation Threat Redemption Self Destruction Demise Sabotage

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“Although it might state otherwise, I don’t think that the world finds anything compelling that’s always shifting to adjust to wherever the world’s going. I think that what the world finds compelling is something so indisputably enthralling that the world is always shifting to adjust to it. And the only thing that I know that has both the power and the character to be that enthralling is God.”

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“Values are no longer the premise by which we shape our lives. Rather, they have become the pitifully abhorrent and wholly illegitimate obstacle to our desires. We have labeled them as some dusty set of antiquated ideals. These ideals served a generation that lived out its days in the backwaters of an ignorance fed comatose by intellectual stupor. Therefore, their value rests only in their removal so that hitherto unexplored horizons can be freely ascended. The problem is that we have yet to discern a horizon from a cliff.”

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