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- Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.…
- One way to begin to see how vastly indulgent we usually are is to fast. It is a long day that is not broken by…
- Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips…
- A wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to perhaps eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the…
- Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer…
- God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but in His holy will…
- The will of God is not something you add to your life. It’s a course you choose. You either line yourself up with the Son…
- We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.
- A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing…
- Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
- It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my…
- The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom,…
- We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.
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