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Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#expectation #god #perfection #standards #change

You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an annulment?" "I want not an annulment. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #mind #mindpower #thinking #thoughts

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#possess #understand #whatever #you

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #life #love #meanings #paulo-coelho

When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#inspirational #rabindranath-tagore #inspirational

I will not compare myself with others, nor them with me. I will appreciate myself and others for what I and they contribute. ↗

— Gail Blanke

#inspirational #inspirational

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. ↗

— John Milton

#lucifer #rebellion #revolt #satan #inspirational

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. ↗