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“As long as the eyes of our faith are fixed upon our troubles we will not find joy. Until our minds consciously move the Lord from our peripheral vision into the narrow corridor of our focus, joy will elude us.”
― Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency

“Just as the expansion and contraction of our lungs in necessary for the continuance of our physical life, so regular fellowship with God in prayer is essential to our spiritual well-being. Without prayer our spiritual lives will shrivel up and return to an infantile state.”
― Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency

“When we find ourselves praying for something that we want, perhaps more than anything we've ever wanted before, can we honestly pray, 'Lord, do what will bring you the most glory"?”
― Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency

“If we regularly ponder the depth of our own sinfulness, like the woman who washed Jesus' feet with her tears, and consider the greater depth of God's forgiveness, we will grow in our love for him. It is when we forget God's benefits that our hearts become proud. If we are not careful, we who have been forgiven much can act like those who think they have been forgiven little and, consequently, become slow to forgive others who sin against us.”
― Paul Tautges, Pray about Everything: Cultivating God-Dependency

“if we do not personally suffer with disabilities. By placing people affected by disability into our lives, the Lord gives us opportunities to display impartial, living faith.”
― Paul Tautges, When Disability Hits Home

“Is it possible to worry about our past? For sure. It’s called regret. Martyn Lloyd-Jones wrote, “The past cannot be recalled and you can do nothing about it. You can sit down and be miserable and you can go round and round in circles of regret for the rest of your life but it will make no difference to what you have done. . . . We must never for a second worry about anything that cannot be affected or changed by us. It is a waste of energy.”1 Sometimes we waste a lot of time and energy worrying about our past failures. But if we have repented and sought forgiveness from God—and from other people, where possible (see Rom. 12:18)—we need to be actively “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead” (Phil. 3:13).”
― Paul Tautges, Anxiety: Knowing God's Peace