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Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
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Society
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Stories
Platitudes

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The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.
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Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.
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God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.
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God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.
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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
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God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
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Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
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Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
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Every faith has its story every faith has its roots.
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I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.
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What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
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Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.
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Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.
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Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.
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Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
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