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ec17762
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Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need to learn to defend themselves by the actual practice of doing so rather than familiarity with theory.
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spiritual-warfare
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J.K. Rowling |
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2a24d09
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The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
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rebellion
spiritual-warfare
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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"Since the basic cause of man's anxiety is the possibility of being either a saint or a sinner, it follows that there are only two alternatives for him. Man can either mount upward to the peak of eternity or else slip backwards to the chasms of despair and frustration. Yet there are many who think there is yet another alternative, namely, that of indifference. They think that, just as bears hibernate for a season in a state of suspended animation, so they, too, can sleep through life without choosing to live for God or against Him. But hibernation is no escape; winter ends, and one is then forced to make a decision--indeed, the very choice of indifference is itself a decision. White fences do not remain white fences by having nothing done to them; they soon become black fences. Since there is a tendency in us that pulls us back to the animal, the mere fact that we do not resist it operates to our own destruction. Just as life is the sum of forces that resist death, so, too, man's will must be the sum of the forces that resist frustration. A man who has taken poison into his system can ignore the antidote, or he can throw it out the window; it makes no difference which he does, for death is already on the march. St. Paul warns us, "How shall we escape it we neglect so great a salvation" (Heb 2:3). By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward. There are no plains in the spiritual life, we are either going uphill or coming down. Furthermore the pose of indifference is only intellectual. The will must choose. And even though an "indifferent" soul does not positively reject the infinite, the infinite rejects it. The talents that are unused are taken away, and the Scriptures tell us that, "But because though art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will begin to vomit thee out of my mouth" (Rev. 3:16)."
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morality
spiritual-warfare
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Fulton J. Sheen Ph.D.D.D. |
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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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4563bfa
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Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
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depression
thought-life
spiritual-warfare
discipline
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John Piper |
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"I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!"
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spiritual-warfare
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Frank E. Peretti |
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adbfa5d
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We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
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spiritual-warfare
pride
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T.H. White |
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8a311c5
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Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.
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war
prayer
spiritual
bunyan
sin-nature
spiritual-quotes
spiritual-warfare
weapons
sin
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John Bunyan |
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9dcbda9
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Don't make peace with the sin in your life.
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spiritual-warfare
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John Piper |
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d955a77
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A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.
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depression
faith
posttraumatic-stress-disorder
spiritual-warfare
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Ian Fleming |
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7f95695
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A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
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spiritual-warfare
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Beth Moore |
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9206fba
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Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
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suffering
thought-life
spiritual-warfare
distraction
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Robert Kurson |
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3fe5123
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In the heir's world, where everything was available, the unattainable had a wild allure.
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thought-wife
spiritual-warfare
self-discipline
materialism
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Geraldine Brooks |
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ecb5d84
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People will love him (Theodore Roosevelt) for the enemies he has made.
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ministry
spiritual-warfare
pacifism
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Doris Kearns Goodwin |