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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without...more

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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.

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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

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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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I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and again he comes and walks a little way with ...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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Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice...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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War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. ...more