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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
--Rick Warren

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A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.
--D. L. Moody

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Sunday's Prayer

Blessed are you, sovereign Lord of all.
From you comes peace;
Open our lives to your peace,
Open our dealings to your peace,
Fill our world with your peace,
That we may live together in peace,
And worship you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
--C. S. Lewis

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Live as if Christ died yesterday, rose this morning and is coming back tomorrow.
--Martin Luther

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
--Gail Sheehy

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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
--Sir Francis Bacon

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When we say that we want to be His disciple, yet attach a list of conditions, Jesus refuses to accept our terms. His terms involve unconditional surrender.
--Richard Stearns

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Sunday's Prayer

Blessed are you. Lord God, Creator of all.
You have called us out of darkness
Into your bright light,
Into Christ's light.
Let his presence guide us this day,
That we may share his light
And walk before you as children of light,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

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The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
--John MacArthur

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To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
--Confucius

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We have shrunk Jesus to the size where He can save our soul but don't believe He can change the world.
--Anonymous

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Faith today is treated as something that only should make us different, not that actually does or can make us different. In reality we vainly struggle against the evils of this world, waiting to die and go to heaven. Somehow we've gotten the idea that the essence of faith is entirely a mental and inward thing.
--Dallas Willard

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Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
--Frederick W. Faber

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I think that today many people are realizing that the highest value in the scriptures isn't a proposition, but the incarnation, the reality of the One who puts flesh and blood on the divine. The incarnation, the kingdom of God, is exploding here and now, in this place. Go wants not only to put me back together, but to do this for all of creation. That's a beautiful thing.
--Rob Bell

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Sunday's Prayer

Almighty God, you know that we have no power in ourselves to help ourselves: Keep us both outwardly in our bodies and inwardly in our souls, that we may be defended from all adversities which may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Imagination can fashion the world into a homeland as well as into a prison or a place of battle. It is the invisibles that determine how you will view the world, whether as a homeland or as a prison or place of battle. Nobody lives in the "objective" world, only in a world filtered by the imagination.
--Czeslaw Milosz

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I have done many things in my life that conflicted with the great aims I had set myself--and something has always set me on the true path again.
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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It's the Holy Spirit's style to fashion holy lives among the inept.
--Eugene Peterson

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There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive. It is not pleasure which we ought to seek in this exercise; but let us do it from a principle of love, and because God would have us.
--Brother Lawrence

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Earth's crammed with Heaven,
and every common bush afire with God;
but only he who sees takes off his shoes.
--Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
--C. S. Lewis

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Sunday's Prayer

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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I have always thought the way to engage life--in business and personally--is to set enormously high goals that seem absolutely unattainable, and work from the conviction that you're going to pull it off. By doing that I'm convinced that you are going to reach half of them. As for the others, you're going to go further than you would have otherwise.
--Billy Payne

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The spontaneous expansion of the Church reduced to its elements is a very simple ting. It asks for no elaborate organization, no large finances, no great numbers of paid missionaries. In its beginning it may be the work of one man, and that a man neither learned in the things of this world, nor rich in the wealth of this world...What is necessary is fain. What is needed is the kind of faith which uniting a man to Christ, sets him on fire.
--Roland Allen

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To be effective, movements, and the central ideas associated with them, must take root in the lives of their followers. If they do not, the movement simply will not ignite.
--Alan Hirsch

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Whenever I am in trouble, I pray. And since I'm always in trouble, I pray a lot. Even when you see me eat and drink, while I do this, I pray.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The moment we permit evil to control our imaginations, dictate the way we think, and shape our responses, we at the same time become incapable of seeing the good and the true and the beautiful.
--Eugene Peterson

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A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition.
--Frederick Buechner

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Sunday's Prayer

Lord God, in this season of Lent we look forward to our remembrance of Jesus' death and our celebration of his resurrection. We pray that your Spirit will renew in u today our anticipation for these events and our awareness that Jesus' death and resurrection are a sure source of hope and life. In the power of Jesus' name we pray. Amen.

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