"...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human."
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"I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to."
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"THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church."
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"There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will spend their life following Him. Some people, like the Apostle Paul, make this decision the minute they meet Him, the minute they become a Christian. Others, like the Apostle Peter, endure years of half-hearted commitment and spiritual confusion before leaping in with all their passion. Still others may enjoy some benefits of God's love and grace without entering into the true joy of a marriage with their maker."
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"Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas."
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"I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you."
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"Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives."
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"...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant."
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"The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens."
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"I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either."
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"The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is."
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"When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution."
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"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice."
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"I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing."
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"And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus."
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"Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?"
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"Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them."
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"For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained."
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"Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever."
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"Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different."
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