Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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Anand Thakur
Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.
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The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
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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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It’s better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
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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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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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There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they’re useful to you and being someone’s friend.
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We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
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Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.
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One of the great illusions of our time is that hurrying will buy us more time.
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The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
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Jesus changed how the world thinks about science, medicine, human rights, education & more.
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Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
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The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.
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The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he’s coming down.
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At the heart of Christian faith is the story of Jesus death and resurrection.
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