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“I find it ingenious that God stepped into this world in the lowest of all places so that He can relate to poorest of all people. And while our wealth might smugly chide us into believing that we are not those people, the rancid impoverishment of our souls would tell us that we are exactly those people. And when we understand that, Christmas makes sense and we are no longer poor.”

God Christian Jesus Poor Salvation Christmas Redemption Souls Impoverished

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“Has my life been cheated by the shortness of the time afforded me, or is it possible that the greater part of my life has been saved for a time where there is no time?”

God Christian Time Jesus Infinite Salvation Redemption Easter Finite

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“I don’t have it within me to do what God does for me. That’s why he’s God and I’m not.”

Love Giving God Jesus Sacrifice Salvation Christmas Redemption Easter Save

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“It was at the point where I was convinced of my own death that God finally convinced me of His life. And I stand amazed that my death birthed His life.”

Life God Christian Death Jesus Salvation Saved Christmas Redemption Easter

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“To think that God pens history solely as a retelling of ‘what was’ is to miss the extraordinary fact that history is God’s initiation to ‘what can be.’ And Christmas is one of the greatest moments in history which renders it one of the greatest invitations of our life.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption Holiday

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“I incessantly wallow in the ‘muck and mire’ of the terrible messes that I have made. And when I realize that God has long ago removed all the ‘muck and mire,’ I suddenly understand that the only wallowing that’s going on is in my head.”

God Christian Jesus Salvation Saved Redemption Repentance Easter Justified Cross

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“Of all the ways that God could show up, He showed up by coming down. Therefore, despite the shortness of my reach it is never outside the length of His grasp.”

God Christian Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption Redeemed Reach Rescued Grasp

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“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”

God Faith Jesus Belief Salvation Christmas Redemption Rescue Holidays

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“The reason some of us struggle with Christmas is that it refuses to give us what we ‘want’ because it recognizes that doing so sacrifices that which we ‘need.’ And we can be confidently assured that Christmas will never stoop to such an atrocity as this.”

Needs God Christian Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption Wants Holidays

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“Christmas is the beginning of a wonderfully tumultuous story of God coming on tip-toe in order to turn the world on it’s head.”

God Christian Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption Holidays Reversal Tip Toe

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“The pit is of my own making. The rescue is of God's love. And the deliverance is my acceptance of both.”

God Wisdom Christian Faith Jesus Belief Salvation Foolish Redemption Rescue

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“At the point that I’ve given up being found by God is the point that I’m most ready to be found by Him.”

God Christian Found Jesus Lost Salvation Saved Redemption

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“To be rescued rather painfully points out the fact that we don’t have the resources to rescue ourselves. Thanks to the stubbornness of our stale pride we choose to refuse rescue and embrace anguish, which means that the greatest thing that we need to be rescued from is ourselves.”

God Christian Jesus Pride Salvation Christmas Redemption Rescue Easter Holidays

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“Weary’ is what I will most certainly be if I try to do everything ‘for God’ or ‘without God’ instead of being in partnership ‘with God.”

God Christian Jesus Ignorance Independence Foolish Partnership Weary Everything

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“If there is any evidence that points to the existence of God, it is found in man’s incessant desire to be ‘god’ and his repeated failure to be anything but men who wish to be what they are not.”

God Christian Jesus Wish Independence Foolish Arrogance Idols Existence Of God

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“If I choose to take the pen from God and write the story of my life without Him, I better have plenty of erasers and a whole lot of white-out. Better yet, I should invest in a good shredder.”

“God is the master of every storm, particularly those that rage within us.”

God Jesus Loss Struggle Storm Difficulties Master Devastation

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“The story of Christmas is too often rejected simply because it is the answer that mankind doesn’t want to a need that mankind won’t acknowledge.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Christmas Denial Rejection Need Solution Answer

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“I cannot give you what you need because I am not enough of what you need. But I can point you to the God Who is everything that you need. And if you go to where I point you, you will need nothing. And is that not the point?”

Needs Enough God Christian Jesus Sufficient Need Adequate

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“We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?”

God Christian Jesus Christianity Surrender Denial Rejection Rebellion Need Apologetics

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“More often than not, rejecting rescue is in reality rejecting our need to be rescued. And it may very well be that is why so many reject Christmas.”

Jesus Jesus Christ Christmas Rejection Need Rescue Holidays Reject

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“My limitations abruptly define the frighteningly negligible extent of my existence, yet my soul utterly perishes if bound by those very same limits. And does this not somehow evidence both the reality of and need for God?”

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“Our humanity possesses needs of such depth and intensity that the whole of our humanity itself is woefully inadequate in its ability to meet those needs. And while such an amazing paradox would readily invite us to embrace the notion that something greater than us exists, we adamantly ignore any such possibility. As such, we run ourselves to a host of graves where we bury the precious parts of ourselves that should never have been buried. And I would suggest that Christmas was the time that God came so that every grave would remain empty because every need would be met.”

Needs God Faith Hope Jesus Grace Mercy Christmas Buried Grave

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“The greatest prayers that I could ever utter come from the heart. And when I pray that way, I rarely need to open my mouth. Therefore, maybe I should think about talking less.”

Heart Soul God Christian Faith Jesus Prayer Christianity Praying Quiet Reflection Jesus Christ Contemplation Pray Mouth Soulful Reflect Savoring Savor Contemplate Utter

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“God says that you are enough. You might look in the mirror with a million voices screaming something very different into the person that you see looking back at you. But voices and mirrors lie when God never does.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence

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“They say that believing in God can be hard. But from where I’m standing, that’s nothing compared to having to believe in myself. Yet, the oddest thing of all is that God believes in me even if I don’t believe in either of us.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Belief Self Esteem Confidence Self Confidence

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“If I make something as small as myself, it will never be as great as I need it to be in order to help me quit being as small as I've chosen to be.”

God Jesus Fear Challenges Self Esteem Self Confidence Small Big

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“The world offers us a lot of mirrors, and we spend a whole lot of time standing in front of a whole lot of them. And regardless of which one of these many mirrors we choose, it will never be large enough to take in ‘all that we are’ in order to reflect ‘all that we are’ back to us. For God made you far too marvelous for the mirrors of men. Therefore, you might want to quit standing in front of them.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Reflection Mirrors Self Confidence Marvelous Self Image

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“The question of ‘who I am’ is bigger than ‘who I am.’ Therefore, I think it far wiser to ask the Great I AM who I am.”

God Christian Jesus Self Esteem Identity Self Identity Personal Identity

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“Today I must look in the mirror and be thankful for the person who I find staring back at me. For although the reflection is terribly imperfect, and I know that full well, God created it with enough room that one day it would be perfect. And if there is nothing else I can find to be thankful for, let me begin here.”

God Jesus Self Esteem Reflection Grateful Appreciation Self Confidence Thanks Thanksgiving Thankful Self Image

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“For many, God is the greatest annoyance because He has the answers for which we have no answer.”

God Christian Jesus Answers Annoying Annoyance Bothersome

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“Our prayers have two stages. First, we pray for something. And then second, we pray for the courage to deal with the rather shocking reality that the prayer was actually answered.”

God Christian Jesus Prayer Answers Petition

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“Sometimes we don’t have the answer because it’s less about getting the answer and more about our unwillingness to acknowledge that we don’t have it and God does.”

God Christian Jesus Answers Christianity Solutions Stubbornness Ego Centric

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“If God has the answer to every question, maybe my appreciation for God should be shaped more by the number of questions and less by the wisdom of the answers.”

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“How can I claim to be the center of my universe when I can’t even conceptualize that which I claim to be the center of?”

God Wisdom Christian Universe Jesus Arrogance Narcissism Foolishness Self Centered Ego Centric

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“I have long ago lost any interest in being in the majority. Rather, my sole interest is being with God, which oddly enough places me in the majority anyway.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Interest Majority Accepted Popular

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“Life offers us many paths, but there’s only One that doesn’t lead to the edge of a cliff.”

Life God Christian Choices Jesus Calling Disaster Direction Paths Cliff

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“If I have to create space for something to enter my life by asking God to leave my life, maybe what I’ve actually done is taken leave of my senses.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Salvation Foolish Priorities Godly Godless

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“God in His omnipotence says, ‘Here it is.’ And we in our ignorance say, ‘No it’s not!’ And in the end there it was, and where it is we are not.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Ignorance Foolish Abandonment Omnipotence

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“Without God, my internal compass is something more akin to a windmill in a hurricane.”

God Wisdom Christian Choices Jesus Prayer Guidance Discernment Direction Hurricane

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“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request that He leave. And if we are not brutally honest with ourselves regarding that choice, it is we ourselves who have set the stage for the next tragedy.”

God Christian Choices Jesus Tragedy Disaster Rejection Abandonment

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“Why am I always lost in the woods,” I yell at the top of my voice! And if I choose to settle down for a moment and be honest with myself, I’ll rather reluctantly admit that I drew the map.”

God Wisdom Choices Jesus Lost Christianity Ignorance Responsible Stupidity Accountability

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“My heart says, ‘This way.’ The world says, ‘That way.’ God says, ‘I am the Way.’ And if perchance I choose to listen to the first two, I’m going to find myself so far off the ‘way’ that being lost becomes the ‘way’.”

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“If men built it, it’s not a refuge. Only God possesses that kind of material and only He has the craftsmanship to use it.”

God Christian Jesus Safe Safety Secure Protected Refuge Fortress

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“It is my desperate wish to walk in something bigger than myself simply because to walk in myself is to live a life of small circles and ever-tightening walls. I am dying to walk in something bigger than all of mankind combined because in walking with mankind I am repeatedly faced with the very same circles and exact same walls. I wish neither of these. Rather, I want to walk in God because in Him there are no circles, walls are unknown, and horizons are the theme of everything He does.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Circles Possibilities Walls Horizons

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“The human race is capable of great things. But the greatest possible achievement that yet eludes humanity is the one that it may never achieve. And that is the willingness to bow before its inability to save itself. For if it fails to achieve this single thing, it is certain to ‘achieve’ the destruction of everything it thought it had achieved.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Ego Achievement Destruction Surrender Arrogance Inability

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“The well-being of my fellowman determines the well-being of this man.”

God Christian Humanity Jesus Mankind Well Being Man Fellowman

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“Mankind is on a mission to free itself from a God whose mission is to free us from ourselves. And if our mission prevails, we won’t.”

God Christian Jesus Mankind Failure Greed Rejection Rebellion Mission

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“To end my life having exhausted the whole of it in the pursuit of worldly things means that I will die holding no things. But to exhaust the whole of it in the pursuit of God means that I will die holding all things. And the difference between the two is everything.”

God Christian Faith Jesus Commitment Priorities Pursuit Die Nothing Everything

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“I don’t know what’s worse; being afraid to live or being afraid to die. Yet, the thing about Christmas is that it eliminates both.”

God Jesus Fear Christmas Live Die Afraid Holidays

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