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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dyin...more

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Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God's business because they all have God whether they...more

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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

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They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a m...more

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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible ...more

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God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again than out of the ninety and nine who had the good s...more

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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's c...more

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humilia...more

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If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could...more

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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

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Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness th...more

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It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

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The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the f...more