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I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Life Way Father Through
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The concept of loyalty is a very strange one. In public life I have remained loyal to causes that I have signed on to. Nobody can fairly accuse me of giving my word and going back on my word. I always pray that my loyalty will not be tested.

Concept Strange Remain Loyalty
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Son Perish Whoever Life
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Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Man God Bread Alone
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Men willingly believe what they wish.

Willing Believe What Wish
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What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Ready Believe Ourselves Wish
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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Have Grow Accomplishments Both
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The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Love Acknwoledge Gratitude Explicit
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If you tell the truth, you die, if you tell lies, you will still die, so why not say the truth.

Truth Lies You Die
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

Spiritual Life Beyond Existence
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Healing Friend Silent Grief
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Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

Discipline Everything Planned Create
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Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone's face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.

Peace Anger Trust Resentment
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The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

Journey Teaching Love Allowing
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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Advice Wounds Rather Tender
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Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

Silence Speaking Closeness Cure
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The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful.

Success Victimized Culture Corporation
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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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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Adversity Best Had Happens
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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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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Children Code Diminished Exchange
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

Believe Implicitly Thing Way
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Anyone Else More Which
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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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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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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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No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

Masterpiece Constant Motion Improve
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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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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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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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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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