The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
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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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Greatness is never achieved through indecision.
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The most frequent promise in the Bible is ‘I will be with you.’
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Jesus gave the world its most influential movement.
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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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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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Acceptance is an act of the heart. To accept someone is to affirm to them that you think it’s a very good thing they are alive.
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Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.
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Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become appropriately small.
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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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Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
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One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
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Every day you and I walk through God’s shop. Every day we brush up against objects of incalculable worth to Him. People. Every one of them carries a price tag, if only we could see it.
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There is no way for a human being to come to God that does not involve surrender.
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We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book.
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