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One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.

Tasks Unite Create Conflict
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When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.

Cling Defend Freely Shared
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In our production-oriented society, being busy, having an occupation, has become one of the main ways, if not the main way, of identifying ourselves. Without an occupation, not just our economic security but our very identity is endangered.

Production-Oriented Occupation Identifying Endanger
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You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Build Create Design Dream
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Formal Gardens Guess Instinct
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Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.

People Money Opportunity Resources
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I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Educate Entertain Entertained Hope
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Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead. Many Christian empire-builders have been people unable to give and receive love.

Christian Leadership Relationship People
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Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Communication Inventions Language Mass
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God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful
Present God Joyful Painful
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

Book Island More Pirate
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Caricatures Cartoon Cartoon Characters Characters
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Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

Pray God Conversation Kick
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Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status – there’s joy in that.

Business Destiny Idea Status
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When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

Recognize Pray Festive Moments
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Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.

Peacemaking Includes Member Vocation
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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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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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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 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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For myself music definitely informs my emotions. And I can literally play a song that will get me where I need to be emotionally. I don’t have to think about the tragic things that happened in my life or the greatest things that happened in my life.

Music Emotions Tragic Greatest
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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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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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Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up.

People Talent Success Lift
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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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I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

Crown Rule World Treat
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A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

Confident Sexy Woman Guys
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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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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field – it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.

Create Identity Dominate Strong
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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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Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Look People Surround Positive
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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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I don’t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, ‘You’re going to be fine. It ain’t that serious!’

Regret Fine Talk Serious
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To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

Learn Patience Rebel Hardship
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Things Own Angle Point
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We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History Dam Today Worth
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.

Unique Style Black Braid
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There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Except Realization Accomplished Something
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Don’t you want to know what’s real and what’s not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it’s almost like, what’s real and what’s not?

Remember War Scared Real
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There are times you can’t really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Sweet Mountain Valley Punch
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You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Learn Can't World School
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