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What He said He would do He always did, and the things we already see fulfilled in His Word simply remind us that what He said about the future will take place just as surely. ↗

— David Jeremiah

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A time will come in your life, William, where your faith will be tested... and you must stay faithful to the word and vision that the All-Father has given to you. ↗

— M.J. Chrisman

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Christianity is a knowledge and not a faith based religious belief system. One must have a peg on which to hang ones hat-of-faith". ↗

— R. Alan Woods

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What we view as God’s absence or lack of quickness to change our circumstances or fix our problems is really God waiting for the proper time to act on our behalf, while simultaneously waiting for us to acknowledge our need for rescue. ↗

— Tracie Miles

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The Gospel is a harsh document; the Gospel is ruthless and specific in what it says; the Gospel is not meant to be re-worded, watered down and brought to the level of either our understanding or our taste. The Gospel is proclaiming something which is beyond us and which is there to stretch our mind, to widen our heart beyond the bearable at times, to recondition all our life, to give us a world view which is simply the world upside-down and this we are not keen to accept. ↗

— Metropolitan Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh

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Grace will follow us even when we are going the wrong way ↗

— Ricky Maye

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When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacred. Then it functions not as a prison but as a lens. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

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If God gave it to me," we say "it's mine. I can do what I want with it." No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

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People "at the top" are eager to attribute their position to their own intellect, savvy, and hard work. The reality is much more complicated. Personal connections, family environment, and what appears to be plain luck determine how successful a person is. We are the product of three things- genetics, environment, and our personal choices- but two of these three factors we have no power over. We are not nearly as responsible for our success as our popular views of God and reality lead us to think. ↗

— Timothy Keller

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I can't tell you why God made you the way you are any more than I can tell you why he's planted a carcinoma in my stomach to make me die painfully while other men die peacefully in their sleep. The cogs of creation seem to slip all the time. Babies are born with two heads, mothers of families run crazy with carving knives, men die in plague, famine and thunderstorms. Why? Only God knows. ↗

— Morris L. West

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