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And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
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Light came into the darkness, but the darkness didn't understand it," Susan said. "Look to the light. Only the light can save you from yourself."
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I sell ideas. Actually, if you think about it, everything is really no more than idea. The past is nothing more than a memory, which is one kind of idea. The future is still a hope, another kind of idea. The present is fleeting and becomes a memory before you can put your hands on it. All ideas. I sell ideas.
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This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.
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The point is, we were created to love beauty. love beauty because loves beauty. We love song because Elyon loves song. We love because Elyon loves love. And we love to be loved because Elyon loves to be loved. In all these ways we are like Elyon. In one way or another, everything we do is tied to this unfolding story of love between us and Elyon.
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Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly for your purpose in life and now found it in the most unexpected place: In the death of your flesh. It is certainly a moment worth of laughter and dance. And in the end it is not suffering at all. The apostle Paul recommended that we find joy in it. Was he mad?
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Our lives hang in the balance of unpredictable situations. One minute you're driving down the road whistling a tune, the next moment the car right in front of you spins out of control and crashes. How you prepare for those unpredictable occurrences determines whether you live or die. Always leave an empty lane to your right or left for escape.
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And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?' . . . He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.
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The physical power of real love is staggering, because real forgiveness is staggering...
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Just because the truth disturbs someone doesn't make speaking that truth hate speech.
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Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.
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A Christian in many American circles, for example, means 'right-wing, gun-toting fanatic who hates Democrats.' As such, a pacifist Democrat who called himself a Christian in those circles, would be lying, albeit unwittingly. To most of this world, America is Christian, just as to most Americans being an Arab means being a Muslim. Both labels have only limited usefulness. I have been called a Christian writer, but I'm not a right-wing, gun-t..
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She was having some difficulty piecing together exactly why she deserved to be in this place, but she wasn't stupid enough to deny that in the end life was cruel and didn't pay attention to what was fair.
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But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.
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Just because someone sees the truth doesn't mean they will accept it or allow that truth to change them.
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Know that you are loved, my dear...Know that you can and will rise above all your fears. I now call you water walker. Water Walker? Yes, you walked through the waters of your fear, didn't you?
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How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?
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How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?
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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.
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But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope.
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When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?
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The power of belief alone could change the course of history.
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Do you know what hope and fear have in common?... They both hold great power. But that power is dependent on both fear and hope together. Think about it. Without the fear of something terrible, you cannot have the hope that it won't happen, you see? Without having hope for something wonderful, you can't have any fear of losing it. They work together, the two most powerful forces we possess.
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Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.
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I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.
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Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
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So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval." No Greater L..
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That was the advantage of a young mind--believing was easier.
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We've stepped off the cliff and are falling into madness.
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What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?
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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
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a person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
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He knew me. He knew me through and through and he found no shame in me.
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When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.
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Love? You have no understanding that to love is to give, not to take.
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The day is brimming with freedom. He took another draw of the air. There's nothing like the clean smell of freedom, wouldn't you say Eden?
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs." He paused. "Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal."
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You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.
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Billos ran. He tore down the shore, bounded up on the rock, and dove into the air. The warm water engulfed him. A boiling heat knocked the wind from his lungs. The shock alone might kill him. But it was pleasure that surged through his body, not pain. The sensations coursed through his bones in great unrelenting waves. Elyon. How he was certain, he did not know. But he knew. Elyon was in this lake with him. Billos opened his eyes. Gol..
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Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.
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You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai
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Not wonderful that you've forgotten, mind you. Wonderful that you have so much to discover.
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And to understand how love unfolds, you must understand how Elyon loves.
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