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To love someone properly probably means that you won’t be very popular. Pure love, loving the way it was intended, is unfortunately a foreign concept to many. Love is messy. Love will involve hardship, demand patience, require forgiveness, test maturity, strain friendship, challenge priorities, refine character, ignite the heart and unleash the soul. Love is not something you sing about, it’s the reason you sing. Love is not something you write about, it’s the reason you write. Love is not something you live to find, it’s the reason that you are alive.
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If the person who says they love you is unwilling to sacrifice for you it ain't love.
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The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean: I love being married.
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Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
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The commandments are a gift, not a curse. Sin is less about breaking the rules and more about breaking the Father's heart.
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The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.
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Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"
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Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.
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Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.
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Note to self: If you can't hear God when you pray, shut up.
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You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner.
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Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.
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The truest friends are usually the ones telling you what you don't want to hear.
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Much of Satan's time is spent trying to make you remember what God has already forgotten. Reconcile, rejoice, and look forward.
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Giving God permission to make you a saint will ruin your life.
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Sometimes holiness demands that we speak up, but oftentimes it calls us to shut up.
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God has great plans for you today... creative and unexpected means by which He will make you a saint. He needs only your joyful submission to His plan.
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Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?
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If I were as good at praying as I am at not praying I'd be really holy.
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If the heart is hardened, the intellect is darkened.
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Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.
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It's easier not to love. Beware of the easy path this day.
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When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.
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If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world would change.
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