One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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Anand Thakur
One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
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If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.
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The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.
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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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sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.
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We are tempted to live under the illusion that somewhere out there are people who are normal.
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.
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I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
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What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.
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Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
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The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
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Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.
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