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    Elie Wiesel
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    2 Corinthians 4:8-10, Isaiah 61:1, Psalm 143:3, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Romans 5:3-5
    My tradition teaches that no heart is as whole as a broken heart, and I would say that no faith is as solid as a wounded faith.

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17, Amos 5:24, Proverbs 21:15, Psalm 33:5, Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 106:3, Zechariah 7:9-10, Psalm 82:3, Jeremiah 22:3, Hosea 12:6, Deuteronomy 16:20, Jeremiah 7:5-7, Matthew 23:23
    If we acknowledge the God of the Bible, we are committed to struggle for justice in society. Justice means giving to each his due. Our problem, as seen in the light of the gospel, is that each of us o...

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    Max Lucado
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    Ephesians 2:4-5, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:8, Psalm 40:2, Isaiah 61:1, Revelation 3:20, Matthew 11:28
    Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 3:11, Philippians 4:8, Romans 12:18, Micah 6:8, Psalm 34:18, James 1:27, Isaiah 61:1-2
    When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the ...

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    Jen Wilkin
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    Zephaniah 3:5, Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3, Psalm 33:5, Jeremiah 9:24, Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 89:14
    The Scriptures find the justice of God a virtue to be extolled, not a blemish to be concealed.

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    Dallas Willard
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    Revelation 21:23, Colossians 3:12, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Titus 2:11-12, Isaiah 61:3, Philippians 4:8, Psalm 27:4
    If your salvation does not include living with God in beauty, truth, and goodness, it’s going to be a very dry haul. And so much of our difficulty today for Christians in this world, and for the world...

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    J. C. Ryle
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    Nahum 1:3, Isaiah 61:8, Psalm 103:8, Romans 11:22, Isaiah 30:18
    Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.

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    Stanley Kunitz
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    Romans 5:3-4, Lamentations 3:31-32, Psalm 73:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:3
    How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

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    John Ortberg
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    Ezekiel 36:26-27, Matthew 28:19-20, John 14:15-21, James 1:27, Ephesians 2:10, Isaiah 61:1
    The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

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    Richard Lovelace
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    Romans 5:1, Romans 8:1, Galatians 2:16, Titus 3:5, 1 John 4:15, Isaiah 61:10, Hebrews 10:14
    Much that we have interpreted as a defect of sanctification in church people is really an outgrowth of their loss of bearing with respect to justification. Christians who are no longer sure that God l...

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    Keas Keasler
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    Isaiah 61:1, Romans 12:12, Matthew 25:35-36, Galatians 6:9, James 1:2-4, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Romans 8:18
    The great hope of Christianity is not that we get to escape all the suffering of the world, but that God is going to use us to be a part of his healing project…

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    Gregory of Nyssa
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    2 Corinthians 3:18, Psalm 34:5, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Romans 10:11, Isaiah 54:4, Psalm 139:14
    Our godlike beauty is hidden beneath curtains of shame.

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    Laura Sobiech
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    Romans 8:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 30:5, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 5:3-5
    “[Zach] had gone from seeing beauty in the midst of suffering to creating it. He had taken this thing that could have suffocated him with despair and stripped it down until all that was left was hope....

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    Charles Spurgeon
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    Genesis 21:1-7 , Genesis 45:4-8, Isaiah 61:1-3, John 16:20-22 , Romans 8:28 , Psalm 30:5, 11
    Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes awa...

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    Christopher L. Webber
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    John 3:16, Matthew 1:23, John 1:1-10, Luke 1:68-69, Isaiah 61:1
    Advent is a coming, not our coming to God, but his to us. We cannot come to God, he is beyond our reach; but he can come to us, for we are not beneath his mercy.

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Romans 10:15, Isaiah 61:3, Proverbs 31:30, 1 Peter 3:4, Zephaniah 6:3
    Glory be to God for dappled things.

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    Dan B. Allender & Larry Crabb
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    Exodus 18:21–22, Nehemiah 8:1–3, Isaiah 61:1–2, Acts 2:44–47, 1 Corinthians 12:12, 26, Psalm 133:1
    The more I understand people and their needs, the more I am persuaded that God has uniquely designed the local church to respond to those needs.

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    Phillip Yancey
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    Luke 2:6-7, Philippians 2:6-7, Matthew 2:1-12, Mark 5:25-34, Matthew 5:3-10, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 61:1
    Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

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    Enuma Okoro
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    Luke 1:1-14, Isaiah 61:1-3, Luke 1:68-69, Isaiah 9:2, Luke 2:10-11
    The Advent story we associate with the joy of Christmas actually begins with deep sorrow and longing [the story of Elizabeth and Zechariah]. But thankfully, in the kingdom of God there is always more ...

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    Jonathan Walton
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    Isaiah 61:1, Revelation 21:4, Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 5:6, Micah 6:8
    The dream so profoundly called for by Martin Luther King Jr. was not the American dream but a longing for the kingdom of God.

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    Barbara Fiand
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    Isaiah 57:18, James 5:16, Jeremiah 30:17, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 61:1, Psalm 147:3
    Wholeness is brokenness owned and thereby healed.

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    E. James Wilder
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    Isaiah 61:1-3 , Ezekiel 34:2-4, 1 Kings 9:4-9 , John 10:11-14, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 , Psalm 23:3
    "Psychology,” Dallas said quietly, “is the care of souls. The care of souls was once the province of the church, but the church no longer provides that care.” He paused. “The most important thing...

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    Rabindranath Tagore
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    Psalm 104:14, Isaiah 61:11, Hosea 14:5, Psalm 127:1, Genesis 2:9
    No, it is not yours to open buds into blossoms. Shake the bud, strike it; it is beyond your power to make it blossom. Your touch soils it, you tear its petals to pieces and strew them in the dust. ...

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    Richard Rohr
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    Isaiah 41:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Psalm 147:3, James 1:2-4, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 61:1
    If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it.

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    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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    Isaiah 43:19, Song of Solomon 4:7, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 147:3, Isaiah 61:3
    If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light—yet perhaps the . . . unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar...

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    John Eldredge
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    Isaiah 61:1, Revelation 21:4, Jeremiah 31:9, Psalm 6:6, James 5:16, Matthew 5:4
    A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

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    Hans Urs von Balthasar
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    Ephesians 2:8, Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 95:6, Revelation 4:11, Mark 6:51-52, Psalm 19:1, Genesis 1:31
    A moment of grace lies in all beauty: it shows itself to me far beyond what I have a right to expect, which is why we feel astonishment and adoration.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 8:1, Isaiah 61:7, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 34:5, Romans 10:11, 1 John 1:9, 2 Timothy 1:7
    I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Jeremiah 9:24, Psalm 99:4, Isaiah 61:8, Proverbs 21:3, Micah 6:8
    The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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    Miguel de Cervantes
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    Psalm 27:4, Philippians 4:8, Genesis 1:31, Isaiah 61:3, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Proverbs 31:30, Psalm 45:11
    It is the prerogative and charm of beauty to win hearts.
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