Without Christ Jesus, there is no christian community. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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Without partnership between two, it is not realistic to expect a community of thousands to survive let alone thrive. ― Jacob L. Wright

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The people who test your patience are a blessing.. Without them, you can't practice patience.

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Without christ, there is no Christian community. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ― Helen Keller

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Without couples, there can be no communities. Without friendship, trust, and intimacy between two, the bonds connecting three, or four, or four thousand, are easily severed. ― Jacob L. Wright

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

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Both then and now, the most powerful means of creating community is to tell stories. ― Jacob L. Wright

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Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. ― Elisabeth Elliot

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Some people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.

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