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	You change your life by changing your heart.   
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	There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.   
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	Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.   
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	People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.   
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	I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.   
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	My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.   
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	A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.   
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	It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.   
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	If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.   
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	God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.   
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	I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.   
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	A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.   
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	God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.   
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	There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.   
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	I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.   
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	Be a doer, not a stewer.   
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	Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.   
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	God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.   
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	You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.   
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	God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.   
