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The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.


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Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.



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The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.



If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.



Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.

Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don't have.



What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.

What repeatedly enters your mind and occupies your mind, eventually shapes your mind, and will ultimately express itself in what you do and who you become.



The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.



Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.



Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.



When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.

When we live in the love of God, we begin to pay attention to people the way God pays attention to us.



I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.





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The Murchisons are honest-to-God-real-foe-rich colored people, and the only people in the world who are more snobbish than rich white people are rich colored people. I though everybody knew that.



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A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.



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For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.



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Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.



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Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.



Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I'll be mad.



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I used to dirt bike a lot. I can't do that anymore. Can't eat a whole lot of chocolate anymore, either. I can't be in 'Indiana Jones' and be a fatso!



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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.




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