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    Oscar Wilde
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    Genesis 12:1-3, Exodus 16:4 , 1 Kings 17:12-16 , Psalm 23:1-2 , Matthew 14:17-20, 2 Corinthians 9:8
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Matthew 14:22-33, John 6:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:9-10, Exodus 3:4, John 15:4-5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Ephesians 2:8-10
    If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

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    Ben Witherington III
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    Luke 19:1-10, Luke 7:36-50, Matthew 14:13-21, Matthew 26:20-25, 1 Corinthians 11:28-29, Luke 15:1-2
    We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take the meal; one needed to repent to take the meal; one n...

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    Martin Luther
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    Psalm 127:1, Proverbs 16:3, 1 Corinthians 3:6-7, 1 Samuel 17:, Matthew 14:13-21, John 15:5
    Work and let him give the fruits therefore! Rule, and let him prosper it! Battle, and let him give victory! Preach, and let him make hearts devout!”

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Genesis 16:7-13, Hosea 2:14-15, Isaiah 35:1, Matthew 14:13-21, John 6:35, John 6:32-33, Exodus 15:17
    Wilderness” is a place, in biblical rhetoric, where there are no viable life support systems. “Grace” is the occupying generosity of God that redefines the place. The wonder bread, as a gesture of div...

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    Dallas Willard
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    Ruth 2:, Matthew 14:28-31, Nehemiah 2:17-20, Matthew 25:14-30, 1 Corinthians 15:10
    Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Genesis 12:1-4, Matthew 14:22-33, Acts 9:1-22, Matthew 25:14-30, 2 Corinthians 9:8
    For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Matthew 14:22-33, John 4:1-26, Genesis 37:50, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Luke 24:13-35
    My job is not to solve people’s problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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    Max Lucado
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    Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:16, John 8:7-11, Matthew 14:14, John 4:9-10, Matthew 15:32
    The kindness of Jesus. We are quick to think of his power, his passion, and his devotion. But those near him knew and know God comes cloaked in kindness

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Matthew 11:28-30, John 4:13-14, Matthew 20:32-34, Luke 7:44-47, Matthew 14:14, John 8:7-11
    “Gentle and lowly.” This, according to his own testimony, is Christ’s very heart. This is who he is. Tender. Open. Welcoming. Accommodating. Understanding. Willing. If we are asked to say only one th...

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    Annie Johns Flint
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    Exodus 16:1-36, 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, Matthew 14:13-21, 1 Kings 17:7-16, Lamentations 3:22-23, Philippians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
    When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere that day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving has only begun. His lo...

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    Erich Fromm
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    Matthew 14:28-29, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 33:3-6 , Genesis 12:1-4, Exodus 31:1-5 , Isaiah 43:19
    Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Matthew 14:13-21, 2 Kings 4:1-7, John 4:10-14, 1 Kings 17:7-6, Isaiah 55:1, Psalm 23:5-6
    Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw His hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace not yet full to the brim, the oil shall not be stayed…. He is a rock in the ...

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    John Chrysostom
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    Matthew 14:22-23, Mark 4:35-41, James 1:2-4, Acts 27:13-26, Jonah 1:4-16
    The disciples are tossed on the waves again. They are in a storm, fully as bad as the previous one. Gently and by degrees he excites and urges the disciples on toward greater responsiveness, even to t...

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    William Barclay
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    Matthew 20:28, Philippians 2:5-8, John 13:14-15, Mark 14:36, Isaiah 53:7, Matthew 14:13-21, Luke 7:1-10
    He did not desire to dominate men; He desired only to serve men. He did not desire His own way; He desired only God’s way.

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    Paul Tillich
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    Exodus 3:11-12, Matthew 14:28-31, Mark 9:24 , James 1:5-8 , Psalm 13:1-2, Psalm 42:5
    Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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    Peter Leschak and Marshall Cook
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    Exodus 35:30-35, Genesis 41:14-39 , Proverbs 8:22-31 , Matthew 14:28-31, Luke 10:38-42 , Psalm 1:1-3
    The truly inventive state of mind approaches the plane of consciousness you’d hope to attain if you were driving down an icy highway and skidded into the path of an oncoming truck ... concentration is...

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    Karl Barth
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    Philippians 4:19, Psalm 46:1-2, Romans 5:6-8, Isaiah 41:10, Hebrews 4:16, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Matthew 14:13-21
    Total need requires total help

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    John Ortberg
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    Matthew 14:31, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24, James 1:5-6
    We live in an age when belief comes hard because we’re much more afraid of being gullible (believing something that’s not true) than we are of being skeptical (not believing something that is true). W...

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    Evagrius Ponticus
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    1 Kings 19:11-12, Exodus 3:1-6 , Isaiah 30:15, Matthew 14:23 , Luke 5:16, Psalm 46:10
    A monk is a man who is separated from all and who is in harmony with all.

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    Karl Barth
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    Matthew 1:23, Matthew 28:20, Luke 2:10-11, John 10:11, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 14:22-33, Philippians 4:5-7, Mark 2:1-12, John 14:16-17, Hebrews 13:5
    “He stands by you:” A drowning man cannot pull himself out of the water by his own hair. Neither can you do it. Someone else must rescue you. This is the good news of Christmas. He who stands by you a...

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    Wendell Berry
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    1 John 4:10, Acts 16:25-34, Matthew 14:22-33, 1 John 4:16, Psalm 139:11-12, Romans 8:38-39, John 1:5
    “Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.”

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Exodus 14:13–14 , Joshua 1:9, Isaiah 41:10 , Matthew 14:28–31, Philippians 4:6–7, Psalm 94:19
    The only real difference between Anxiety and Excitement was my willingness to let go of fear.

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    Rudolf Bultmann
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    1 Kings 17:8-16, Daniel 6:16-23, Matthew 14:25-31, Luke 4:33-36, John 2:1-11 , Psalm 77:14-15
    It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at the same time believe in the New Testament world of spirits and miracl...

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    Washington Irving
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    Luke 2:8-14, Acts 2:42-47, Matthew 14:13-21, John 2:1-11, Romans 15:7, 1 Peter 4:9, Luke 14:15-24, 2 Corinthians 9:7-8, Luke 10:27, Hebrews 10:24-25
    Now Christmas is come, Let us beat up the drum, And call all our neighbors together, And when they appear, Let us make them such cheer, As will keep out the wind and the weather.
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