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My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

Ravi Zacharias

To allow God to be God we must follow Him for who He is and what He intends, and not for what we want and what we prefer.
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God Himself Intention Preference
What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.
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Creation Himself Human Image Reality
Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.
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Difference Ideas Pretend Sacrifice Tolerance Truth
We have to find the back door to peoples’ hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
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Finding Guard Heart heavy People
When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
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Creation Definition Demonstration God Hold Message Purpose Transformation
Truth by definition excludes.
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Definition One Liner Truth
An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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Ideas Income Intellectual Money Word
Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
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Hard Work Love Myself Vacation
In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.
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Difference Goodness People Society
Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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Alive Death Goodness Offering People
Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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Flatter God Humble Humility
I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.
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Happiness Meaning Ourselves Pain
The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God’s framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
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Acceptance Day Journey Life Person Process Unique Willing Yourself
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the eye to see the good, and the imagination will follow suit.
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Discipline Eyes Focus Follow Imagination Material Raw
If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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Author God Life Scripture
The primary purpose of a home is to reflect and to distribute the love of Christ. Anything that usurps that is idolatrous.
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Distribution Home Primary Purpose Reflection

My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

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My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.

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