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“The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.”
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“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
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“Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.”
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“Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?”
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“Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.”
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“When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?”
― A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
― A View From the Front Porch: Encounters With Life and Jesus
“In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.”
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“To be careless in making decisions is to naively believe that a single decision impacts nothing more than that single decision, for a single decision can spawn a thousand others that were entirely unnecessary or it can bring peace to a thousand places we never knew existed.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Life's Complex Journey
“The darkness makes everything disappear but it makes nothing go away.”
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“Everything that I hold will eventually be gone. Subsequently, the quality of my life will depend on whether I choose to appreciate those things ‘now’ or wait until ‘then.”
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“The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.”
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“I decry the injustice of my wounds, only to look down and see that I am holding a smoking gun in one hand and a fistful of ammunition in the other.”
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“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
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“It's really not about reading a good book. Rather, it about being transformed by great ideas.”
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“I am wholly deserving of all the consequences that I will in fact never receive simply because God unashamedly stepped in front of me on the cross, unflinchingly spread His arms so as to completely shield me from the retribution that was mine to bear, and repeatedly took the blows. And I stand entirely unwounded, utterly lost in the fact that the while His body was pummeled and bloodied to death by that which was meant for me and me alone, I have not a scratch.”
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“Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.”
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“A sunset is nothing more and nothing less than the backside of a sunrise.”
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“Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?”
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“We often throw rocks not realizing that they’re going to land somewhere.”
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“An end is only a beginning in disguise.”
― An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
― An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
“Easter is a time when God turned the inevitability of death into the invincibility of life.”
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“To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that God has handed me the priceless privilege of discovering who they are.”
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“Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real.”
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“Maybe I don’t have enough beginnings in my life because I fought against the endings that were about to birth those beginnings.”
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“The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.”
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“Blame is the coward’s solution to his fear of accountability.”
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“Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.”
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
― Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
“Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.”
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“I would like to say that what I fear are the challenges that stand in front of me, when in reality what I fear is the cowardice that lays within me.”
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