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    Helen Keller
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    Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either ...

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    Helen Keller
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    Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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    Wendell Berry
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    But even in the much-publicized rebellion of the young against the materialism of the affluent society, the consumer mentality is too often still intact: the standards of behavior are still those of k...

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    Charles F. Stanley
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    Brokenness is God’s method of dealing with our dependence on anything other than Him for fulfillment and security. No matter how committed we may be to God, we’ll always fight the inclination to do th...

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    Kofi Annan
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    Extreme poverty anywhere is a threat to human security everywhere.

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    John R. W. Stott
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    Insistence on security is incompatible with the way of the cross. What daring adventures the incarnation and the atonement were! What a breach of convention and decorum that Almighty God should renoun...

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    David Putman & Ed Stetzer
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    Amos 8:11-12 , 2 Chronicles 7:14 , Nehemiah 13:10-11, Hebrews 10:24-25 , Matthew 9:37-38 , Psalm 122:1
    Since 1991, the adult population in the United States has grown by 15%. During that same period, the number of adults who do not attend church has nearly doubled, rising from 39 million to 75 million—...

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    Columba of Iona
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    Be a bright flame before me, O God a guiding star above me. Be a smooth path below me, a kindly shepherd behind me today, tonight, and forever. Alone with none but you, my God, I journey on my way; wh...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the very nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast. We are never safe, but we ha...

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    Billy Graham
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    Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

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    Thomas Merton
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    I have had to accept the fact that my life is almost totally paradoxical. I have also had to learn gradually to get along without apologizing for the fact, even to myself. And perhaps this preface is ...

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    Pope Francis
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    Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need...

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    John Piper
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    The person who thinks the money he makes is meant mainly to increase his comforts on earth is a fool, Jesus says. Wise people know that all their money belongs to God and should be used to show that G...

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    Desmond Tutu
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    Ephesians 2:14, Romans 14:17, Matthew 5:9, Zechariah 7:9-10, Psalm 85:10, Amos 5:24
    There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautif...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    What could be more delightful than to have in the same few minutes all the fascinating tenors of going abroad combined with all the human security of coming home again?

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    Brennan Manning
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    When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied wi...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...

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    Erin M. Straza
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    Freedom is found when undesirable habits are identified and the cue-routine-reward structure is defined, pulled apart, and reframed. In the context of our discussion, the cue is a desire for comfort, ...

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    Christopher Lasch
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    Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:39-42, Colossians 3:1-2, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:19-21
    People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic securit...

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    Lesslie Newbigin
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    Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and...

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    N. T. Wright
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    Luke 12:33-34, Luke 18:28-30, Acts 2:44-45, Matthew 19:21, Mark 10:29-30, Luke 14:26
    Family and property, then, were not for the ancient Jew simply what they are to the modern western world. Both carried religious and cultural significance far beyond personal, let alone “individual,” ...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Matthew 6:19-21
    The heart clings to collected treasure. Stored-up possessions get between me and God. Where my treasure is, there is my trust, my security, my comfort, my God. Treasure means idolatry.

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    Stephen Covey
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    Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

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    Lysa TerKeurst
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    The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.

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    Bob Goff
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    Oftentimes, when I encounter someone who makes me feel afraid, I instantly put up barriers. I put them up with my big words and opinions. I construct them to protect myself. Barriers make me feel righ...

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    Fleming Rutledge
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    Only the person who is completely safe can understand that judgment is good news.

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    William Shakespeare
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    Proverbs 28:1, Genesis 3:10, Isaiah 57:20, Isaiah 48:22
    Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

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    Mark Buchanan
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    Sabbath [is about trust]. Sabbath is turning over to God all those things—our money, our work, our status, our reputations, our plans, our projects—that we’re otherwise tempted to hold tight in our ow...

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    Frank K. Sonnenberg
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    Trust is like blood pressure. It's silent, vital to good health, and if abused it can be deadly.

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    Richard Lovelace
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    [Many Christians] below the surface of their lives are guilt-ridden and insecure ... [and] draw the assurance of their acceptance with God from their sincerity, their past experience of conversion, th...
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