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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.”

“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“I will eventually come to resemble that which I seek. Therefore, the outcome of seeking the praises of men verses the praises of God begs some serious consideration.”

God Christian Jesus Identity Seeking Consideration Seek Praises

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“The greatest rest is never determined by where I happen to be, but by the God that I’ve invited to be wherever I happen to be.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Peace Calm Invited Rest Walk With God

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“Mankind cannot manufacture hope. Rather, it creates an innumerable array of ingeniously crafted facsimiles that are quite captivating. And it is Christmas that answers the question of what all of these facsimiles were attempting to replicate, and it is Christmas that illustrates how badly mankind has failed in the attempt.”

God Christian Hope Jesus Christmas Holidays Replicate Forgery Facsimiles

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“The God-shaped void set in every heart rests in a perfectly preserved state in a place called the atheist.”

Heart God Christian Spiritual Faith Spirituality Jesus Atheist Disbelief

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“Do not be fooled. Passive prayers hastily tossed out as some second-thought appeasement at those junctures when life’s more pressing duties benevolently grant us a moment of reprieve are nothing of prayer. Real prayer is first realizing the fact that prayer ‘is’ the pressing duty. And second, that real prayer is doggedly pushing everything else aside to deliberately act on that fact.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Praying Pray Intercession Power Of Prayer

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“Prayer moves everything behind everything that moves everything. And that means that it misses nothing.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Prayer Power Praying Power Of Prayer

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“I project my limits on God when faith would say that I should be projecting His limitlessness on me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Impossible Unlimited Projection Possible Limitations

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“If I scan the expanse of my heart and find it empty of everything except emptiness, it is because I ‘poured’ the whole of my passion into something other than God. And anything other than God will always be too ‘poor’ to be able to ‘pour’ back anything that can fill that kind of emptiness.”

Heart Soul God Christian Faith Passion Jesus Poor Christianity Dreams Jesus Christ Empty Goals Emptiness Mislead Hopes Misled Vacant Passions Misdirected Pour Misdirect

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“I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.”

God Jesus Creation Genius Goals Potential Fortitude Brilliance Tenacity Ingenuity Ingenious Respecting Yourself Creation Of God

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“Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God’s.”

God Christian Jesus Trade Surrender Plan Ingenious Devise

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“The Bible might say things that are hard to embrace at times. But to not embrace them is certain to make life hard all of the time.”

Hard God Faith Hope Jesus Embrace Scripture Bible Christian

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“Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less?”

God Jesus Christianity Impossible Jesus Christ Resurrection Easter Possible Cross Tomb Crucifixion Resurrection

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“The landscape of the world is littered with holes dug by men in search of water for their souls. But it is the hole where the shovels were surrendered to God that mark the end of holes and the beginning of water.”

God Christian Spiritual Jesus Water Holes Thirst Shovels Quench Satisfy

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“If anyone tells me that they’ve created the formula for living, what they’re really telling me is that they’re a fraud who’s deceived by their own fraudulence. And I can’t argue the fact that that’s a formula. But it’s a formula to keep me from finding the formula.”

God Christian Jesus Deception Fraud Misdirected Formula Fradulent

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“We have heard it said that we need to ‘stand up and fight’. I would suggest that the most powerful way to do that is to ‘kneel down and pray’. The former might win the battle, but the latter will win the war.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Fight Win Lose Battles Kneel Spiritual Battles

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“Fear is what we’ve made something to be rather than understanding Who God is.”

God Christian Jesus Perspective Frightened Fearful Fears Exaggerated Fright Inflated

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“If I errantly define myself by the limiting rubrics of a limited culture, I will not even begin to understand the slightest fraction of who I am. What I need to realize is that God does not work in fractions.”

God Christian Culture Jesus Limits Brave Faithful Limitations Faithless Rubrics

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“It is in boldly unleashing our faith that we effectively leash our fears.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Courageous Daring Bold Unleash Leash

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“Despite my incessant desperation, I simply cannot paint the perfect picture within which I would wish to live out my life. And because I cannot, God picked up the brush of love, positioned the canvas of history and painted a manger.”

Life God Jesus Wish Christianity Paint Christmas Canvas Brushes Picture Bethlehem Manger Wishful Painted

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“If I’m walking with God, not knowing where I’m at has absolutely nothing to do with being lost.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Lost Confused Direction Unknown Reliant All Knowing

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“As I contemplate a relationship with God, I find that I’m afraid to ride on the coattails of the infinite. But what I fear more than that is spending my life in the coat closet.”

“The first step in effectively fighting the battle is to get out of God’s way. The second step is to stay out of His way. And the third step is to never get in God’s way again so that the first and second step become completely irrelevant.”

God Christian Fighting Jesus Challenges Surrender Warfare Battles Relinquish

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“You are what you eat.’ And that fact applies infinitely more to your soul than it does your body.”

Soul God Christian Jesus Healthy Eating Spiritual Growth Spiritual Development Eat Spiritual Food

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“These are the times when our faith is not just an idea or a concept that we throw around. It's something that has to actually be lived out. We must rise to what we say we believe. And when we do, God rises with us. He walks alongside us. The exercise of our faith never comes back empty.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Exercise Initiate Proclaim Live Out

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“I don’t want to listen to the myriad chorus of voices that call me to various horizons, regardless of how pristine those horizons might be. Rather, I would much prefer to listen for the voice that created the horizons.”

God Christian Purpose Jesus Calling Suggestions Voices Horizons

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“Might it be that I’ve lost everything so that I can recognize the fact that everything had become my everything?”

God Christian Jesus Security Worship Priorities False Gods False Security

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“I am terrified by the horrors that lurk all around me. But it would do me good to remember that those same horrors are terrified by the God who resides within me.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Fear Terror Protection Frightened Horrified Horrors

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“The Christmas story is penmanship of the most brilliant sort, where God crafted a beginning that would never be subject to an ending.”

Writing God Jesus Jesus Christ Christmas Story End Beginning Ending Holidays Begin Penmanship Manger

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“With God, the impossible is not an obstacle but an invitation.”

God Christian Faith Hope Jesus Belief Christianity Impossible Jesus Christ Challenge Possible Improbable Believing Invitation Obstacle Probable

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“We assume the impossible to be just that…impossible. But when it comes to God, it’s impossible that anything is impossible. Therefore, if we understand this reality and if we dare to act it out in our lives, could it be that the word impossible is just an excuse?”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Impossible Infinite Possible Improbable Probable

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“Prayer is the choice to invade the impossible, not live out our lives hampered by the probable.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Impossible Praying Probable

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“The impossible was created in order to give us something to solve.”

God Jesus Challenges Impossible Solutions Solve Possible Probable

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“God would have us cherish even the smallest of blessings, for in taking a blessing for granted we are well on our way to taking it to its grave.”

God Jesus Christ Freedom Liberty Blessing Granted Liberation Free Blessings Entitlement Vs Gratitude

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“Give God a little more time to do what you would screw up if you did it now.”

God Christian Time Faith Jesus Belief Patience Surrender Impatience

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“You were not made to tend to the grave of your mistakes because God removed the coffin and backfilled the hole.”

God Jesus Healing Regret Forgiveness Shame Salvation Mistakes Restoration Grave

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“I have stumbled my way through most of my life. However. God has kept me from falling all of my life.”

God Christian Fall Jesus Sin Salvation Mistakes Redemption Failures Stumble

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“The depth of the hole might be determined by the foolishness of my choices, but the foolishness of my choices never determines the length of God’s arm.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Mistakes Redemption Consequences Hole

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“It is my belief that any indentations that my knuckles may have left on the door of heaven found their origins from those that my knees have left on the floor of my room.”

God Jesus Heaven Prayer Praying Bible Knuckles Room Floor Requests

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“Because I adamantly refuse to embrace an ideology that life is solely a trajectory to death, I can do no other than adamantly embrace the ideology of the cross and the trajectory of the resurrection.”

Life Death Jesus Heaven Eternity Embrace Ideology Resurrection Cross

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“In the simple act of asking the question, “Is this all that there is to life?,” we are evidencing the fact that we are made for more. For how can we ask a question that we cannot conceptualize in order to obtain an answer that we don’t need?”

Life God Spiritual Death Jesus Heaven Forever Eternal Eternity

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“Sure, there are many roads to heaven. But there is only one that actually gets there.”

Christian Jesus Heaven Beliefs Roads Religions

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