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The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any ↗

— John Paul Warren

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In a team setting, leadership is shared by a community of people, which counters the tendency for pastors to form congregations in their own images. ↗

— Adam S. McHugh

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Moving forward implies MOTION when in all actuality it may be simply standing STILL and seeing the salvation of the Lord. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Life of any real value or substance is not formed during good times merely enjoyed. ↗

— John Paul Warren

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Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real state of our fellowship, of our sanctification. What may appear weak and trifling to us may be great and glorious to God. Just as the Christian should not be constantly feeling his spiritual pulse, so, too, the Christian community has not been given to us by God for us to be constantly taking its temperature. The more thankfully we daily receive what is given to us, the more surely and steadily will fellowship increase and grow from day to day as God pleases. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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