When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

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Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.

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Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.

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Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

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No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

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One way to define spiritual life is getting so tired and fed up with yourself you go on to something better, which is following Jesus.

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Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

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