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- The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to…
- You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where…
- The decision to give ourselves to others is a daily taking up of the cross.
- Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
- Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on…
- I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That…
- We are often so caught up in our activities that we tend to worship our work, work at our play, and play at our worship.
- It's easy to get attached to idols, good things inappropriately adored. But when you have Jesus in the centre of a room, everything else only…
- Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.
- Adversity is a good test of our resiliency, our ability to cope, to stand back up, to recover from misfortune. Adversity is a painful pedagogue.
- Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and…
- When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't…
- 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
- This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to…
- Youre through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. Youve been replaced. . . forgotten. Thats a lie!
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