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When you learn how to trust your feelings then you'll know how to recognize it - That part of you that needs no healing is like a swollen river rising. So choke me with a violent passion and drown me in a deep emotion. You've got to help me build this feeling. I'm swimming in a stagnant ocean. Been blinded by smoke and mirrors and crippled by a fear of tomorrow. If you don't help me shake this feeling, then I'll be marking time in Limbo.
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I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.
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Friday and Saturday nights have a funny way of revealing what we really believe on Sunday mornings.
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If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.
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Things change when you learn to loosen your grip. I think one way and the future is desperate. I think another way everything is in sight. Trees bend so branches don't have to break. We mend the wounds of our last mistake... I live one way holding onto the fence post. I live another way sliding off into space. Each life is loosely assembled... Birds swim, fish do fly. Proud man begins to cry. Birds swim, fish do fly. Things change, so why can't I?
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Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.
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Reconciliation is the fastest way to change your life.
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Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.
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Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
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The amount of "followers" you have does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had twelve.
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Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.
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Don't make Christ ride shotgun.
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It's one of the greatest comforts of working in ministry: the unspoken certitude that your spouse did not marry you for your money.
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Married couples, may we never forget that when attacks come the grace of the sacrament is eternally stronger than we are.
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When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.
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There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.
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It is in our darkest cultures that the greatest saints rise, stand, and lead.
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The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.
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God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
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You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.
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A rib... loaves and fish... some spit... God can do a lot with a little.
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In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.
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Gray and overcast from my earthly perspective, but it's sunny above these storm clouds. Grace lets us see life from God's point of view.
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Are you willing to go the extra mile in this new year to know God?