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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…
- 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.
- If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and…
- The human longings that are deep inside of us never go away. They exist across cultures; they exist throughout life. When people were first made,…
- Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still…
- Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not,…
- 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…
- To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can…
- The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of…
- As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
- There is something you can't fix, can't heal, or can't escape, and all you can do it trust God. Finding ultimate refuge in God means…
- From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into…
- The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on…
- Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face…
- Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
- Practice making decisions and learning from them all day long.
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- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray