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“It’s not so much about writing the story of Christmas itself, as ingenious as it is. In reality, it’s much more about writing the story of Christmas into the story of life so that it will become the story of life.”

Life God Truth Age Values Existence Principles Integrity Eternal Standards Ethics Meaning Substance Morals Timeless Everlasting Fact Guidelines Principle Created Precepts

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“All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?”

Life Choices Results Path Journey Regret Integrity Guilt Greed Priorities Confusion Outcomes Agendas Consequences Compass Direction Natural Consequences

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“To release ourselves from accountability to our choices is to say that we can be ‘reckless’ without causing a ‘wreck.’ And maybe that’s why the road of life looks more like a parking lot.”

Life Responsibility Ethics Responsible Accountability Morals Road Wreckage Wreck

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“Patience compels me to adjust my stride to the cadence of life, not the pace of my greed.”

Life Wisdom Patience Patient Greed Calm Selfish Selfishness Thoughtful Stride

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“Life is like a chess game; you have to think three moves ahead. Sadly, many people jump ahead and then wish that they could make six moves backwards.”

Life Choices Patience Strategy Decisions Thoughtful Reckless Impulsive

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“I don’t pretend to know exactly why I’m here, other than I’m not here to pretend that there’s not a really good reason for why I’m here.”

Life Reason Purpose Destiny Calling Meaning Pretend Ignore

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“Maybe," David pondered, "That’s why we don’t know our futures. Maybe if we knew what was coming we’d mess with our lives so much that the very thing that life is calling us to do is the very thing we’d screw up.”

Life Purpose Destiny Calling Future Lives Unknown Destroy

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“If life is nothing more than a journey to death, autumn makes sense but spring does not.”

Life Death Purpose Destiny Journey Calling Spring Meaning Frustration Autumn Mission Futility Purposeful Futile

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“To maximize our lives we think that we should get up and join in the race. Yet, we rarely consider that maybe it’s less about joining a race and more about actually creating one.”

Life Race Destiny Journey Creating Self Improvement Independent Goals Self Starter

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“Don’t think for a moment that God wouldn’t step up and save you from that which is consuming the very essence of your existence, for to save you is the very essence of His existence.”

Life God Christian Jesus Existence Salvation Redemption Rescue Save

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“If you somehow believe that you can free yourself from yourself, you will spend the rest of your life decorating the prison cell that you’ve been living in all of your life.”

Life God Christian Jesus Freedom Eternity Salvation Prison Redemption Captive

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“Christmas is opportunity while everything else in life is the hope of opportunity.”

Life God Christian Hope Opportunity Jesus Salvation Christmas Redemption

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“I have found that unless I surrender every part of my life to God every part of my day, I will end up missing most every part of my life every day of my life.”

Life God Christian Jesus Salvation Surrender Redemption Lose Miss

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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 die for the very thing that you’re saving is far less a death and far more what it is to live.”

Life Giving God Death Christianity Sacrifice Jesus Christ Salvation Redemption

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“As it peaks over the horizon, does not a sunrise whisper the opportunity to try again. And if the day passes and our efforts were stunted by the bane of our insecurities or blunted by the challenges of life, does not a sunset invite us to rest before it whispers the same message the next morning?”

“I am a hearty soul bent on independence, yet if I refuse to bend such passion to God’s greater design my life will most certainly end up in a somewhat precarious decline.”

Life God Independence Decline Bent Precarious Hearty Soul

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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.”

“A parent is the compass carefully laid on the map of a child who has yet to understand that the present is nothing more than the place where the future begins, not the place where the future lives.”

Life Parent Family Future Parenting Destination Child Present Compass

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“The biggest question in our lives may not be “What have I made room for?” Maybe the biggest question might be “What have I not made room for?”

Life Choices Space Focus Acceptance Priorities Decisions Rejection Question Room

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“If you’re not willing to give your life away, never bring a child into your life.”

Life Children Mother Father Parent Family Sacrifice

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“Deep in the voice of a child and laced throughout the melody of their laughter we can hear what life was like before ‘innocence stolen’ swept it away. And if we bend down and listen closely, we suddenly realize that life was never stolen. Rather, we gave it away.”

Life Children Laughter Meaning Meaning Of Life Stolen Essence Of Life

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“You may have lived the better part of your life being told that you’re a sheep, but that never changes the fact that you are the lion that you have always been.”

Life Self Esteem Deception Sheep Self Perception Lion

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“Don’t be so foolish as to think that by ignoring the hard questions life won’t become hard.”

Life Hard Difficult Answers Foolish Denial Questions Consequences Avoidance

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“We somehow have led ourselves to believe that our questions are big enough to encircle life, and that life is small enough to be contained by the answers. The real question might be, are we ignorant or just plain stupid?”

Life Answers Stupid Ignorance Ego Stupidity Ignorant Arrogance Arrogant Narcissism Questions Naive Narcissistic Question Egotistical Bold Answer Misled Egocentric Naiveté

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“Sometimes in the thick quiet of those soft summer nights, I listen. For it is in the quiet that the voices of things deep and marvelous and adventurous whisper simply because a world of noise grants them no space. Therefore, if we have no quiet, we will hear plenty of noise, but we will not hear a single voice.”

Life Space Listening Solitude Quiet Hearing Voices Whisper Attentive

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“If you’ve never come to a crossroads, there was never a road.”

Life Choices Journey Decisions Destination Road Crossroad

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“The best time to put out a fire is before it starts.”

Life Wisdom Choices Politics Leadership Fire Decisions Foolishness Consequences

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“I prefer not to spend the majority of my life putting one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking out of the places that I should have never put one-foot-in-front-of-the-other walking into.”

Life Wisdom Purpose Choices Journey Walking Foolish Decisions Direction

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“God doesn’t change because He’s set in His ways. He doesn’t change because He is out to save us from the fact that we are set in ours.”

Life Choices Wise Fool Blind Greed Selfish Foolish Decisions Stubborn

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“Every decision that we make is a brick that we lay in the foundation of our lives. And we would do well to remember that any wall is only as strong as its weakest brick.”

Life Choices Foundation Decisions Consequences Brick

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“We are either running to something, or running from something. But possibly the most dangerous running of all is to deny that we’re running in the first place.”

Life Running Faith Choices Fear Deny Flight Denial Fight

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“Far too much of my life is defined by ‘ready, fire, aim,’ which explains why my target has no holes in it.”

Life Choices Determination Aim Defined Target

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“Running suggests that I’m either haunted by fear or driven by conviction. And which of these two I’m responding to will determine if I’m running ‘from’ something or running ‘to’ something.”

Life Running Choices Fear Conviction Flight Decisions Haunted

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“I frequently prefer to ‘pretend’ to live for that allows me to completely avoid the cost I am certain to incur in actually living. However, it also robs me of the rewards. With that being the case, I might be wise to ask where the real cost actually lays?”

Life Choices Wise Cost Personal Growth Fake Live Pretend

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“Too often life is like a pot of stew that we made without a recipe. A lot of things got in there that shouldn’t have, a lot of things that should have didn’t, and everyone around the table would rather starve than eat it.”

Life Choices Foolish Decisions Recipes Impulsive Stew Starve Reactive

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“A day doesn’t go by where a day doesn’t go ‘bye.’ Therefore, you might consider what you doing with it before it’s done with you.”

Life Use Wisdom Time Choices Day Bye Short Brief

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“To climb in the canopy I must leave the ground. And such a decision will determine whether I will live a life of forest vistas, or an existence of dirt and leaves.”

Life Choices Decisions Dirt Forest Vistas Leaves Climb Canopy

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“If there’s muck in the water of your life, you probably had a hand in hauling it there. What that means is that you also have the ability to haul it out.”

Life Choices Water Decisions Consequences Repercussions Haul Muck

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“If where you’re going isn’t better than where you’re at, then maybe you ought to ask why you’re living your life going backwards.”

Life Wisdom Choices Journey Foolish Decisions Backwards Better Improve

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“At the close of this day, where I spent the day will become the unalterable stuff of my history. Therefore, since such a record is being kept, I would be wise to determine how I want to begin each day so that I will not be dismayed on my last day.”

Life Choices History Day Wasted Wasteful Squandered

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“Just because ‘these shoes were made for walking’ doesn’t mean that we should use them on any old road.”

Life Wisdom Choices Wise Walking Thoughtful Mindful Road Discerning

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“Wisdom’ and ‘greed’ sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as ‘life’ and ‘death.’ And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share.”

Life Wisdom Death Choices Opposites Greed Extremes Consequences Repercussions

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“To sit down at the end of each day and read what we wrote across the page of this day is probably going to make us think real, real hard about what we should write tomorrow.”

Life Today Choices History Tomorrow Legacy Day Consequences Write Page

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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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“The script of tomorrow is being written by the pen of today. And we would be wise to remember that the pen of today cannot erase anything written by the pen of yesterday.”

Life Writing Today Choices History Yesterday Legacy Pen

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“What I see behind me is what I’m going to create in front of me. Therefore, I might want to take a long hard look out of the rearview mirror before I drop it into ‘drive’.”

Life Wisdom Past Choices Future Responsible Thoughtful Consequences Repercussions

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