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The worship of safety emasculates greatness.

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Safety
Greatness
Worship

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Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as our children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.
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God has work for you to do.
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My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
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The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.
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God has high plans for you and me.
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I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.
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For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.
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We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes.
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To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.
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God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
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You change your life by changing your heart.
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Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.
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You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need.
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The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
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God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
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I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
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No one can do everything, but everyone can do something
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The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.
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Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.
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For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
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