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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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love
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I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want
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We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.
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for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
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my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
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Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
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inspirational
lord
christian
alone
fight
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True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
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Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
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I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet"
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Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance
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marriage
happiness
love
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How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?
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Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
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spirituality
religion
god
mark-of-the-lion-series
voice-in-the-wind
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Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
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faith
inspirational
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I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing
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Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.
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As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
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Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails...
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You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.
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Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
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inspirational
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Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
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inspirational
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Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
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Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
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I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.
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Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
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Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus of Nazareth." Marcus saw the fever in his eyes. "Why?" he said, frowning. "Why does it matter?" "Just tell me, Marcus Lucianus Valerian. Tell me everything. From the beginning. Let me decide for myself what matters." And so Marcus did as he was asked. He gave in to his deep need to speak of Hadassah. And all the while he talked of her, he fa..
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It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began.
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death
religion
god
life
inspirational
jesus-christ
resurrection
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Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
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religion
love
inspirational
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Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
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We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
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Francine Rivers |
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The Lord will provide.
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inspirational
heartwarming
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadenc..
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history
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Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you.
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Though fallen low God raised her up
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god
love
reedeeming
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I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me.
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Letting go isn't giving up. It's trusting God to do whatever He has to do.
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You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah" --
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Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.
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Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.
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He stopped and glared at her. "It's a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It's not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear."
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Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.
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Anything less than your best dishonors God
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Francine Rivers |
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singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.' 'really? How did that happen?' 'it all just drained out.
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emptiness
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I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.
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