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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.”

“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, 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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“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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“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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“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.”

God Christian Jesus Challenges Monsters Christmas Enemies Adversaries Power Of God Battles

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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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“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.”

“Hope is never absent. What’s absent is our faith in a reality that’s never absent.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Confidence Certainty Permanent Absent

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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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“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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“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.”

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Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

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“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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“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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“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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“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 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.”

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