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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps…
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…
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Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong....…
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred;…
— George Chapman
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was…
— C.S. Lewis
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The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man.
— James Boswell
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The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.
— Saint Augustine
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
— Norm MacDonald
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I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his…
— James Russell Lowell
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while…
— Martial
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Of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one…
— Booker T. Washington
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The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in…
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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What's difficult in life is to stay centered when somebody does or says something that tempts us to close our hearts because…
— Marianne Williamson
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The three classic ways in which the Devil tempts us are with a threat, a promise or a seduction.
— Paulo Coelho
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