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    John Jacob Niles
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    Isaiah 53:, Genesis 3:15, Exodus 12:, Psalm 22:, Romans 5:8
    I wonder as I wander, out under the sky, How Jesus the Savior did come for to die.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    Psalm 25:5, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:25-26, James 1:2-4, Matthew 11:15, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 30:18
    Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

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    Thomas Merton
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    John 1:10-11, Luke 2:7, Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 53:3, Matthew 8:20, Romans 5:8
    Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for him at all, Christ comes uninvited.

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    Elisabeth Elliot
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    John 15:18-20, 1 Peter 2:21, Romans 5:3-4, Mark 15:16-24, 2 Corinthians 4:8-10, James 1:2-4
    If we do anything to further the kingdom of God, we may expect to find what Christ found on that road - abuse, indifference, injustice, misunderstanding, trouble of some kind. Take it. Why not? To tha...

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    Rainer Maria Rilke
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    Psalm 23:4, Philippians 3:13-14, Lamentations 3:22-23, Isaiah 43:2, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Psalm 30:5, Romans 5:3-5
    Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Hebrews 1:3, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 5:8, Isaiah 53:5, Colossians 1:15-16, Philippians 2:6-8, John 1:14
    [I]f we chose to project the human figure forward out of an unhuman world, we could only say that one of the animals had obviously gone mad.

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    Charles F. Stanley
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    Psalm 51:17, Hebrews 4:16, Ephesians 1:7, Matthew 11:28-30, Romans 5:8, Psalm 103:12, Isaiah 1:18
    Perhaps you have been ensnared by a sinful habit that you will not abandon, and your guilt is so overwhelming you are ashamed to approach Christ. Whatever the reason for your broken intimacy with God,...

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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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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    John 13:1-17, Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 2:21, Hebrews 9:14, Mark 10:45, Romans 5:8
    To accept this [Jesus' self-humiliation in washing the disciples' feet] is to be converted. And nothing can be added to this. If you imagine that you can add something to what is given in the ...

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    Alia Joy
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    Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 2:4-5, Mark 5:25-34, Psalm 34:18, Romans 5:6
    There is a helplessness in poverty that precedes the move of God in our lives because we understand an aspect of grace that so many miss: we do nothing to earn it. When we understand this, all becomes...

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    Madeleine L'Engle
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    Romans 5:8, John 1:1-10, Luke 5:31-32, Isaiah 9:2, Isaiah 12:5-6, Luke 2:10-11
    He did not wait till the world was ready, till men and nations were at peace He came when the Heavens were unsteady and prisoners cried out for release. He did not wait for the perfect time. He came w...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Romans 5:8, John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 18:21-35, 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Romans 14:10-13, James 4:11-12
    Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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    Anne Lamott
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    Romans 5:15-17, Romans 11:6, 1 Corinthians 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 2:21, Ephesians 1:6-7, Ephesians 2:5-8
    I do not at all understand the mystery of grace—only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Matthew 25:40, Hebrews 12:1-2, Galatians 6:9, James 1:12, Romans 5:3-4, Amos 5:24
    Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated indi...

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    Gerald G. May
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    John 3:16, Romans 5:5, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 John 4:10
    The invitation of love is not a proposal for self-improvement or any other kind of achievement. Love is beyond success and failure, doing well or doing poorly.... Love is a gift.

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    Peter Rollins
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    John 12:1-8, Ruth 1:16-17, 1 John 3:16, Romans 5:8, John 3:16
    Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.

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    Donald Grey Barnhouse
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    John 8:1-11, Psalm 113:5-8, Romans 5:8, Philippians 2:6-8, John 13:14-15, Luke 15:11-32
    Love that reaches up is adoration. Love that reaches out is affection. But love that stoops is grace.

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    Ben Myers
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    Genesis 3:19 , Isaiah 6:5, Nehemiah 8:5-6, Romans 5:12, Hebrews 10:24-25 , Psalm 95:6
    I do not go to church because it is enjoyable (usually it’s not), or because it is never dull (usually it is). I do not go to church because it satisfies my private needs and wishes (it seldom does). ...

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    Nadia Bolz-Weber
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    Romans 5:15-17, Romans 11:6, 1 Corinthians 1:3-4, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Galatians 2:21, Ephesians 1:6-7, Ephesians 2:5-8
    God’s grace is not defined by our ability to be good. God’s grace is defined by God’s desire to be with us.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Matthew 10:16, 2 Timothy 3:12, Romans 5:10, Hebrews 12:2-3, Luke 6:22
    Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring ...

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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    L. J. Suenens
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 5:3-5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 15:13, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 23:18, Psalm 33:22
    Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Romans 15:13, Hebrews 11:1, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 33:18, Romans 5:5
    Hope is passion for what is possible.

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    Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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    John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalm 103:10-12, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23-24
    I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Charles Hodge
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    Genesis 1:26-27, Psalm 8:3-5, Isaiah 43:1, Luke 15:1-7, Romans 5:8
    We could search the world over, but we could not find a man so low, so degraded, or so far below the social, economic, and moral norms that we have established for ourselves that he had not been creat...
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