Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.
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The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God’s irreplaceable gift to you.
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Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.
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Never try to have more faith – just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you’ll trust Him.
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A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee.
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Habits eat good intentions for breakfast.
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The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.
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It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to “seeking first the kingdom.”
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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.
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Jesus is mysterious not just because of what we don’t know about him, but because of what we do know about him.
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The life of Abraham Lincoln is by most accounts an amazing study in character formation. Yet he was notoriously disorganized; he even had a file in his law office labeled If you can’t find it anywhere else, try looking here.
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Grace is the offer of God’s ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.
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