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    Max Lucado
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    Hebrews 12:8
    Don’t see your struggle as an interruption to life but as preparation for life. No one said the road would be easy or painless. But God will use your mess for something good. “This trouble you’re in i...

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    Lao-tze
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    Luke 9:23, Galatians 6:9, Psalm 37:23, Hebrews 12:1, Philippians 3:13-14
    The journey of a thousand miles begins with a first step.

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    Dallas Willard
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    1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 13:2, Isaiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:28, 2 Corinthians 3:18
    To handle the things of God without worship is always to falsify them.

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    James 1:12, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4, Hebrews 12:1, Hebrews 10:36, Philippians 1:6, Matthew 24:13
    By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Hebrews 12:14
    Simply put, God’s will for your life is that you be holy. That you live a life of set-apartness. That, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you strive for utter purity of character (Heb. 12:14). Every adm...

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    George Müller
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    1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 12:11, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4
    If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

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    Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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    Hebrews 12:10, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 34:5, Psalm 121:1-2, Numbers 21:8-9, John 3:14-15, Micah 7:7
    For every one look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ.

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    J. C. Ryle
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    1 Peter 1:2, Romans 8:29, Ephesians 1:4, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 12:10
    We must be holy, because this is one grand end and purpose for which Christ came into the world. . . . Jesus is a complete Saviour. He does not merely take away the guilt of a believer’s sin, he does ...

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Genesis 27:41, Exodus 15:23-25 , Job 10:1, Ephesians 4:31 , Hebrews 12:15 , Psalm 73:21-22
    To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you...

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    Gustav Mahler
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    2 Timothy 1:6-7, Psalm 78:4, Hebrews 12:28-29, 1 Corinthians 11:2, 2 Thessalonians 2:15
    Tradition is not the worship of ashes but the preservation of fire.

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    Julia Cameron
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    Exodus 20:3 , 1 Kings 18:21, Proverbs 4:25-27, Luke 10:41-42, Hebrews 12:1, Psalm 46:10
    Clutter is the enemy of clarity.

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    John F. Walvoord
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    Hebrews 12:2, John 17:5, Romans 8:3, Isaiah 53:5, Hebrews 2:14-15
    To achieve the divine purpose of becoming the Savior, the divine glory needed to be veiled. Christ voluntarily, moment by moment, submitted to human limitations apart from sin. The humiliation was tem...

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    Carl Jung
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    Isaiah 40:31, John 16:33, 1 Peter 5:10, Hebrews 12:11, 1 Peter 1:6-7
    In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy which gets rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 7:18-19, James 4:8, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Psalm 51:2-3
    It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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    Don Everts and Doug Schaupp
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    Matthew 19:29, Hebrews 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Romans 8:18, Matthew 16:25-26, Luke 9:23-24
    Entering the kingdom is just like this: it’s a thing of great joy and great cost. The cost is clear, but nothing is compared with what is being gained.

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    Richard Rohr
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    Romans 8:28, Luke 22:54-62, John 21:15-17, Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 12:5-6, Romans 5:3-5, James 1:2-4
    We live a long time in order to become lovers. God is like a good parent, refusing to do our homework for us. We must learn through trial and error. We have to do our homework ourselves, the homework ...

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    Mark Buchanan
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    Isaiah 30:15-16, James 1:2-4, Romans 5:3-5, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Hebrews 12:1-2
    A typical response to threat and burden is to want to flee it. It’s evacuation as the cure for trouble. If only I could get away is our mantra. Then I would be safe. Then I could enjoy my life. But wh...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 12:11, 2 Corinthians 2:9-10, Philippians 1:12-14, 1 Peter 1:6-7
    As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. ...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Philippians 4:19, Matthew 10:29-31, Psalm 10:17, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Hebrews 12:10
    Five fatherly responsibilities that God has assumed toward His children: 1. God provides for us (Phil. 4:19). 2. God protects (Mt. 10:29-31). 3. God encourages us (Psm. 10:17). 4. God comforts us (2 C...

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    1 Peter 2:9, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Ephesians 4:22-24, 1 Thessalonians 4:7, Hebrews 12:14, 1 Peter 1:15-16
    The hole in our holiness is that we don’t really care much about it. Passionate exhortation to pursue gospel-driven holiness is barely heard in most of our churches. It’s not that we don’t talk about ...

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    William S. Stoddard
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    Isaiah 53:5, 1 Peter 2:24, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:8, Colossians 3:13, Luke 23:34
    Forgiving the unforgivable is hard. So was the cross: hard words, hard wood, hard nails.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Exodus 32:, Hebrews 12:18-24, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Exodus 20:1-2, Exodus 19:1-2
    The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

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    C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison
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    Philippians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 9:8, James 1:17, Malachi 3:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, Colossians 2:6-7, Hebrews 12:28, Philippians 4:4-7, Ephesians 5:18-20, 2 Corinthians 9:15
    It is the essence of God to give, the essence of humanity is thankfulness.

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    Kevin DeYoung
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    Deuteronomy 6:7, Proverbs 1:null, Proverbs 23:13, Hebrews 12:7-11, Ephesians 6:4
    God doesn’t provide many specific instructions about the parent-child relationship, except that parents should teach their children about God (Deut. 6:7; Prov. 1-9), discipline them (Prov. 23:13; Heb....

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    Helen Keller
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    Joshua 1:9, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 27:13-14, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Hebrews 12:1-2
    Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    Hebrews 12:11, Galatians 6:1, 2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Peter 4:16, John 15:18-19, 2 Timothy 3:12
    The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

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    Jack Miller
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    Hebrews 12:2, Colossians 2:6-7, 2 Corinthians 11:3, John 15:5, Philippians 3:8-9
    When you turn to Christ, you don't have a repentance apart from Christ, you just have Christ. Therefore, don't seek repentance or faith as such but seek Christ. When you have Christ you have r...

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    Russian Toast
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    Romans 5:3-5, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, James 1:2-4, Hebrews 12:1-2, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Isaiah 40:31
    Let us drink to the success of our hopeless cause.

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    1 John 3:3, Colossians 3:5, Hebrews 12:14, 2 Corinthians 7:1, Romans 12:1-2
    The holiness of God teaches us that there is only one way to deal with sin- radically, seriously, painfully, constantly. If you do not so live, you do not live in the presence of the Holy One of Israe...

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    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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    Colossians 3:23-24, Hebrews 12:11, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 24:16, 2 Timothy 1:7
    These periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times of their lives. A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in cons...
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