Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies

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Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings. — Sakyong Mipham

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God meets our needs one day at a time. — Max Lucado

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No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise. ― Laurell K. Hamilton

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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place. ― Criss Jami

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In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

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Realism can break a writer's heart.

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[If] there were such a God, I would like to ask however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions.

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