Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.
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Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
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The ministry of bearing with one another is learning to hear God speak through difficult people.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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We may be unlovely yet we are not unloved.
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If I have the courage to acknowledge my limits and embrace them, I can experience enormous freedom. If I lack this courage, I will be imprisoned by them.
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The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
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Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
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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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Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.
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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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Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
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In reality, each thought we have carries with it a little spiritual power, a tug toward or away from God. No thought is purely neutral.
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True repentance never leads to despair. Its leads home. It leads to grace.
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