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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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That’s one of the nice things about writing, or any art; if the thing’s real, it just lives. All the attendant hoopla about…
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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation,…
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I don't ever know where I'm going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming,…
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite…
— Peter Gabriel
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One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
— Joseph Barbera
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The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping.
— Stewart O'Nan
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One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
— Carole Maso
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One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
— Marilynne Robinson
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One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for…
— Philip Yancey
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One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that…
— Stephen Sondheim
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