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"The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."
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distraction
discipleship
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St. Augustine of Hippo |
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.
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discipleship
forgiveness
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Richard Rohr |
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Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
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discipleship
sin
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Sinclair Lewis |
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Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what you teach to be lovable, and will regret in me what you teach to be regrettable. This is a mark of a Christian brother's mind, not an outsider's--not that of 'the sons of aliens whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of iniquity' (Ps. 143:7 f.). A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections
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friendship
intercession
discipleship
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St. Augustine of Hippo |
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If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
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discipleship
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John Piper |
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You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.
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spiritual-warfare
discipleship
humility
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Richard Llewellyn |
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Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor.
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christianity
jesus
love
discipleship
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Brian Zahnd |
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DOING is often God's remedy for despair.
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emotion
discipleship
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John Piper |
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The aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to the ancient Greeks.
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worship
continuity
discipleship
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Harold Bloom |
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I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.
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emotion
discipleship
self-discipline
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
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empathy
discipleship
maturation
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Jules Verne |
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Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
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discipleship
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.
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worship
work
idolatry
vocation
discipleship
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Harold Bloom |
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Giving up everything must mean giving over everything to kingdom purposes, surrendering everything to further the one central cause, loosening our grip on everything. For some of us, this may mean ridding ourselves of most of our possessions. But for all of us it should mean dedicating everything we retain to further the kingdom. (For true disciples, however, it cannot mean hoarding or using kingdom assets self-indulgently.)
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possessions
hoarding
giving
sharing
discipleship
selfish
grip
purpose
kingdom
surrender
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Randy Alcorn |
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If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
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mentoring
discipleship
insecurity
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Alexandra Robbins |
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The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.
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leadership
discipleship
initiative
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Richard Llewellyn |
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Being self-owned is a state of mind.
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distraction
discipleship
materialism
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
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thought-life
ministry
discipleship
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Frank Herbert |
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Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.
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presentism
history
urgency
discipleship
listening
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Randy Alcorn |
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As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.
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prayer
discipleship
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Richard Llewellyn |
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I found myself speaking more slowly (in an attempt to obey the Bible in speech), as if I was speaking French instead of English.
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contemplation
discipleship
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A.J. Jacobs |
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"As soon as (Teddy Roosevelt) received an assignment for a paper or project, he would set to work, never leaving anything to the last minute. Prepared so far ahead "freed his mind" from worry and facilitated fresh, lucid thought."
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education
discipleship
maturation
procrastination
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it." --
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politics
group-think
discipleship
party
ideology
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.
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discipleship
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George Eliot |
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Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.
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leadership
confidence
discipleship
self-discipline
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Beth Moore |
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"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
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identity
discipleship
nationalism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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d9ac447
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In the context of today, this WAS heroism.
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discipleship
maturation
culture
humility
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John Howard Griffin |
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"When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting."
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openness
discipleship
humility
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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You don't need a prophet to tell you to eat.
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provision
ministry
discipleship
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Geraldine Brooks |
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"In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body."
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identity
discipleship
loyalty
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Ron Suskind |
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Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
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worship
word-choice
evangelism
discipleship
language
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Alister E. McGrath |
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Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.
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discipleship
discipline
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Billy Graham |
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I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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word-of-god
discipleship
culture
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A.J. Jacobs |
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G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.
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thought-life
discipleship
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A.J. Jacobs |