A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
FRANCIS CHAN
FRANCIS CHAN
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Barbara De AngelisBarbara De Angelis Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction
Aldous HuxleyAldous Huxley One can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
Henry JamesHenry James If you’re happy, you eat. If you’re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.
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