I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
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The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.
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A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family.
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Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.
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Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
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Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
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Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.
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We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.
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Worship is the act of the abandoned heart adoring its God.
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If only Jesus’ followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.
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It is the thoughts and intents of the heart that shape a person’s life.
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So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan’s line to him is ‘You’re fine’. But after you do take sides, it becomes ‘Your heart is bad and you know it’.
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The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.
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When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she’s been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn’t want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
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Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.
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You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.
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