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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now! ↗

— Keith Green

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding. ↗

— Billy Graham

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Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for. ↗

— Francine Rivers

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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose. ↗

— Francine Rivers

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When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God. ↗

— Chuck D. Pierce

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We do not behave out of our identity, we behave out of our understanding of our identity in Christ. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

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If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them. ↗

— Timothy Keller

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She notices the unyielding ruthlessness of the storm; the crashing waves, the bitter sky kissing the water on the horizon, the keening laments of the sharp, cutting wind, and the relentless liquid deliverance of its somber showers. She’ll never forgive the audacity of the storm’s neglect. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

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Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor. ↗

— Brian Zahnd

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