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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 103:8, 1 John 4:16, Proverbs 3:5-6, Lamentations 3:22-23, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28
    Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Isaiah 64:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 37:5, Matthew 6:31-33, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 8:28
    Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”

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    Martin Luther
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    Job 28:28, Romans 1:21-22, Ecclesiastes 1:18, Isaiah 5:21, Jeremiah 9:23-24, 1 Corinthians 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-7
    All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

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    Craig Dykstra And Dorothy Bass
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    Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 3:5-6, Nehemiah 6:3, Matthew 6:33, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 90:12
    We long to see our lives whole, to know that they matter. We wonder whether our many activities might ever come together in a way of life that is good for ourselves and others. Lacking a vision of a l...

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    Hippocrates
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    Exodus 15:26 , Isaiah 38:16-17, Proverbs 3:7-8 , 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 , James 5:14-15 , Psalm 41:3
    A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

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    Mark Batterson
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    Romans 8:28, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-6
    If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, y...

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    Martin Luther
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    Proverbs 4:20-22, Mark 2:17, James 5:14-15, Psalm 103:2-3, Proverbs 3:7-8, 1 Timothy 4:8
    I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen prod...

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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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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    2 Timothy 1:7, Ephesians 4:1-3, Philippians 2:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 13:7, Isaiah 42:16, 1 Timothy 4:12
    So the first and most basic task of the Christian leader in the future will be to lead his people out of the land of confusion into the land of hope. Therefore, he must first have the courage to be an...

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    Reinhold Niebuhr
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    Colossians 1:9, Ecclesiastes 3:1, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:5, 2 Timothy 1:7, Joshua 1:9
    God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Proverbs 3:11-12, 1 Peter 4:12-13, Galatians 6:7-8, James 1:2-4, 2 Corinthians 4:17
    The entire book of Job contradicts the common belief that good people will have lives that go well, and that if your life is going badly, it must be your fault. The Bible does not say that every diffi...

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    Gordon T. Smith
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    Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 55:8-9 , Luke 9:23-24, Philippians 2:3-4 , Matthew 6:33-34, Psalm 37:5-6
    Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams observes that the biblical ideal is not so much that we need to deny the self as to decenter the self: To see the self in truth, as an integral member of a comm...

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    Randy Alcorn
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    Galatians 2:11-14, Jonah 3:4, Proverbs 3:3-4, Colossians 4:6, Micah 6:8, Ephesians 4:15, John 1:14
    Truth-oriented Christians love studying Scripture and theology. But sometimes they’re quick to judge and slow to forgive. They’re strong on truth, weak on grace. Grace-oriented Christians love forgive...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 19:1-10, Proverbs 3:5-10 , Malachi 3:10 , Acts 4:32-37, Matthew 10:8, Deuteronomy 16:17
    A man needs three conversions: first of the head, then of the heart, and finally of the pocketbook.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.

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    Mark Twain
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    Psalm 34:4, John 14:27, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 94:19
    I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

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    Joshua Choonmin Kang
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    Micah 6:8, Psalm 138:6, Proverbs 3:34, Matthew 11:28-29, 1 Peter 5:5-6, 2 Corinthians 12:9, James 4:6
    [God’s] greatest grace is found at the lowest place

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    Dallas Willard
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    Titus 2:10, Matthew 5:16, Proverbs 3:3-4, 1 Peter 3:4, Galatians 5:22-23
    [Beauty] “is goodness made manifest to the senses.

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24
    The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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    Psalm 90:12, Ephesians 5:15–16, John 13:34–35, Proverbs 3:27–28, Isaiah 58:6–7, Micah 6:8
    Life is short, and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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    Tertullian
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    Colossians 1:16-17, Proverbs 3:19-20, Jeremiah 10:12, Isaiah 45:18, Deuteronomy 32:4, Psalm 89:14
    From the very first the Creator was both good and also just. And both His attributes advanced together. His goodness created; His justice arranged, the world; and in this process it even then decreed ...

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    Isaac Asimov
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    2 Corinthians 10:5, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:5, Psalm 139:23-24, Matthew 7:3-5, Isaiah 55:8-9, Colossians 3:2
    Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

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    Flannery O'Connor
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    Psalm 46:10, John 20:29, Psalm 23:4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 50:10, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Hebrews 11:1
    People...think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross...You arrive at enough certainty to be able to make your way, but it is making it in darkness. Don’t expect faith to clea...

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    Brant P. Hansen
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    Isaiah 66:2, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 57:15, Proverbs 3:34, James 4:6
    I’ve learned that Jesus is both terribly dangerous and terribly safe. For the proud, he is the biggest threat imaginable. And for the humble, he is the securest refuge.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Isaiah 41:10, Philippians 4:13, James 2:17, Psalm 37:23-24, Isaiah 30:21, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    Psalm 139:23-24, Luke 18:9-14, James 1:5, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The problem is, many of the people in need of saving are in churches, and at least part of what they need saving from is the idea that God sees the world the same way they do.

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    Terry Tempest Williams
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    1 Corinthians 2:5, Romans 8:24-25, James 1:5-6, Romans 10:17, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Micah 6:8, Proverbs 3:34, Psalm 25:9, Philippians 2:3, Isaiah 57:15
    There is something in humility which raiseth the heart upward.

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Romans 8:28, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, James 1:2-4, Philippians 4:11-12, Colossians 3:23-24, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given,...

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    A. E. Houseman
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    1 Corinthians 13:12, Psalm 77:19, Proverbs 3:5-6, Deuteronomy 29:29, Ecclesiastes 3:11
    And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think.
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