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    Thomas Fuller
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    Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

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    Mark Twain
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    Mark 9:23, John 20:29, Matthew 17:20, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:6, Romans 10:17
    Faith is believing what you know ain't so. (1897)Consider checking out our illustrations page on Faith.

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    N. T. Wright
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    When you are questioned about some all of your worldview, and you have... to take (your worldview] off and look at it in order to see what’s going on, you may not be able to examine it very closely be...

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    Matthew McCullough
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    For all our time and attention, no matter how carefully we curate our stuff or how much we might enjoy ourselves along the way, we’re all merely stocking and staging someone else’s opportunity for bar...

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    J. Hooker
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    Entering a place that is new to us, or seeing a familiar place anew, we move from part to part, simultaneously perceiving individual persons and things and discovering their relationships, so that, wi...

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    Yogi Berra
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    You can observe a lot by watchin’.

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    Kevin G. Ford
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    If someone is looking for a church, she will drive by the facility and decide within three seconds if it might be a fit. If she actually shows up, she determines whether to return in another three sec...

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    Geert Hofstede
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    Our natural tendency is to watch the world from behind the windows of [our] cultural home and to act as if people from other countries, ethnicities, or categories have something special about them, . ...

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    Melvin Ming
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    3 John 1:5-8, Genesis 18:1-5, Acts 28:2, Luke 14:13-14, Matthew 25:35, 1 Peter 4:9
    Tom Clegg, a consultant with Church Growth Institute, states, "When visitors walk through the door, they will decide in 3 to 8 minutes whether they will take you seriously and whether they will r...

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    Darrow Miller
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    How you treat a person in the brief moment when you pass together through a revolving door tells the world what you believe about them.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    An excellent way to test people’s values is to observe what we do when we don’t have to do anything, how we spend our leisure time, how we spend our extra money.

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    Andrew Root
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    Sabbath is a period of 'trying on' God's promised completion, trying on God's future. Sabbath is not rest for a privileged few while all others serve them – that's tourism. Sabbath...

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    Ashley Hales
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    In a knowledge-based economy, the way we make ourselves seen and even validated is through more work. Busyness shows us that we’re valuable, contributing members to society. So whether we can’t stop c...

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    Brené Brown
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    Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are

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    Charles Dickens
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    “My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.”

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    William Goldman
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    “He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men...

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    Fred Craddock
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    Luke 10:25-37, Luke 10:38-42, James 1:19-25, Mark 1:35-38, Ecclesiastes 3:1
    There is a time to go and do; there is a time to listen and reflect. Knowing which is a matter of spiritual discernment. If we were to ask Jesus which example applies to us, the Samaritan or Mary, his...

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    P. Carnegie Simpson
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    John 5:39-40, Hebrews 4:12-13, Matthew 16:13-15, Mark 10:17-22, John 3:1-10, John 18:33-38, Matthew 12:30
    We had thought intellectually to examine him; we find he is spiritually examining us. The roles are reversed between us...A person may study Jesus with intellectual impartiality, he cannot do it with ...

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    Francis de Sales
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    Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you were you in his place. This is the touchstone of true reason.

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    Dr. Seuss
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    "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

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    Mark Riddle
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    Conversion in the U.S. seems to mean we’ve exchanged some of our shopping at Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, and Borders for the Christian Bookstore down the street. We’ve taken our lack of purchasing control ...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Rules for Self Discovery: What we want most; What we think about most; How we use our money; What we do with our leisure time; The company we enjoy; Who and what we admire; What we laugh at.

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    Lord Molson
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    I will look at any additional evidence to confirm the opinion to which I have already come.

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    Barbara Kingsolver
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    I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

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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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    James Joyce
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    Shut your eyes and see.

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    Richard J. Foster
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    If you are too busy to read, you are too busy.

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    Aziz Ansari
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    I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Listen for God, stop and watch and wait for him. To love God means to pay attention, be mindful, be open to the possibility that God is with you in ways that, unless you have your eyes open, you may n...

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    Marcus Aurelius
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    Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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