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1697 Clergyman Quotes

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

Tremendous Depression Real Rather
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Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reveal our whole trembling self to him, the more we will be able to sense that his love, which is perfect love, casts out all our fears.

Inclination Show Reveal Trembling
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How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

Longer Clear Truth Simple
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

People Willing Needs Allows
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The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

Christain Completely Irrelevant Nothing
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A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Life Without Center Quiet
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To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.

Travel Downward Road Constantly
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As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

Peacemaker Divine Gift Proclaim
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Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us.

First Midst Destroying Prevent
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Living in a community with very wounded people, I came to see that I had lived most of my life as a tightrope artist trying to walk on a high, thin cable from one tower to the other, always waiting for the applause when I had not fallen off and broken my leg.

Community Wounded People Broken
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Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

People Phosphorized Untouched Instead
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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.

Resistance Tightly Desire Betrays
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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

Labors Generations Trust When
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Spiritual identity means we are not what we do or what people say about us. And we are not what we have. We are the beloved daughters and sons of God.

Spiritual People Beloved Daughters
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Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Ministers Practicing Lonely Many
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God wants you to live for others and to live that presence well.

God Presence Will Others
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The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Enemies Real Unalterable Unpredictable
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.

Jesus Countries Imposed Dominated
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Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

Prayer Source Content Goal
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Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Fear Other Create Intimacy
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Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Solitude Grows Community Intimacy
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Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

God Bring Hidden AGift
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Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

Intimacy Beign Distance Horizon
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Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Efforts Disconnet Suffering Hurt
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Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

Holds Surprise Hearts Friends
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Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a perspective puts God in view in all of life, not just in the moments we set aside for worship or spiritual disciplines. Not just in the moments when life seems easy.

Perhaps Nothing Moments Spiritual
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Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Solitude Profound Deeper Anger
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In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.

Solitude Creation Life Response
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The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Man VictimSlowly Prevent Consistently
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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Learn Patience Rebel Hardship
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You may flunk your exams in school and still make it in life, but if you flunk life's exams, you're sunk!

Flunk Exam School Life
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Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.

Prevail God Victory First
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The challenge may not go away when you pray, and when it doesn't go away, it simply means God believes that He has trained you enough to face it and win.

Win Face Enough Train
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Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

Born Being Earthly Divinity
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Success is causing the world around you to aspire to your inspiration.
Success World Aspire Around
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Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

Daughter Thine Count Lord
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There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.

Wrong Poor Being Everything
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What you see with the eyes of faith is more real than what you see with your optical eyes.

Faith Eye See Real
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Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Rebellion Produce Relationship Revelation
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To become great, you have to be born great. If you are born again then you are the seed of Abraham. That means you have greatness in you!

Great Born Seed Become
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God has never made a failure; that he gave birth to you means you are a success. Success is in your DNA.

Failure Success Birth Gave
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The goal of the Christian is not to become like Jesus; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Goal Christian Become World
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As a child of God, you must realize that you are on the winning side of prophecy; until you win it is not over!

Child Realize Side Win
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Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

Insult Name King Boldness
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A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

Teach Gain Church Much
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The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

Devil Stop Defeat Left
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Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

Good Happen Child Bring
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If you act your faith, you may look foolish for five minutes; but if you don't act your faith, you may be foolish forever.

Faith Act Look Foolish
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God sends you into a situation not so that He can show He is God; but rather for you to show who you are!

Show Rather Send Situation
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There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.
Powerful Prayer People Such
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