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“C. S. Lewis argues that it takes a community of people to get to know an individual person. Reflecting on his own friendships, he observed that some aspects of one of his friend’s personality were brought out only through interaction with a second friend. That meant if he lost the second friend, he lost the part of his first friend that was otherwise invisible. “By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.”221 If it takes a community to know an ordinary human being, how much more necessary would it be to get to know Jesus alongside others? By praying with friends, you will be able to hear and see facets of Jesus that you have not yet perceived.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“If we give priority to the outer life, our inner life will be dark and scary. We will not know what to do with solitude. We will be deeply uncomfortable with self-examination, and we will have an increasingly short attention span for any kind of reflection. Even more seriously, our lives will lack integrity. Outwardly, we will need to project confidence, spiritual and emotional health and wholeness, while inwardly we may be filled with self-doubts, anxieties, self-pity, and old grudges.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule—it is a failure to treat God as God.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“Prayer is how God gives us so many of the unimaginable things he has for us. Indeed, prayer makes it safe for God to give us many of the things we most desire. It is the way we know God, the way we finally treat God as God. Prayer is simply the key to everything we need to do and be in life.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking, when nothing is forcing you to think about anything in particular.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“If, as we are meditating or praying, “an abundance of good thoughts comes to us, we ought to disregard the other petitions, make room for such thoughts, listen in silence, and under no circumstances obstruct them. The Holy Spirit himself preaches here, and one word of his sermon is better than a thousand of our prayers. Many times I have learned more from one prayer than I might have learned from much reading and speculation.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“We should not decide how to pray based on the experiences and feelings we want. Instead, we should do everything possible to behold our God as he is, and prayer will follow.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“First, I took several months to go through the Psalms, summarizing each one. That enabled me to begin praying through the Psalms regularly, getting through all of them several times a year.27 The second thing I did was always to put in a time of meditation as a transitional discipline between my Bible reading and my time of prayer. Third, I did all I could to pray morning and evening rather than only in the morning. Fourth, I began praying with greater expectation.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“The choice is ours. If we want to be sure to experience this vision by sight hereafter, we must know it by faith now. If we want freedom from being driven by fear, ambition, greed, lust, addictions, and inner emptiness, we must learn how to meditate on Christ until his glory breaks in upon our souls.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God

“When He calls us to fast strength—when He drafts us into decrease—God’s purposes are clear: Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD. (Deuteronomy 8:2”
― Alicia Britt Chole, 40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Hunger. A Different Kind of Fast.

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3”
― Alicia Britt Chole, 40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Hunger. A Different Kind of Fast.

“Jesus lived a truly uncluttered life and died a focused, eternally fruitful death. How I long to follow His example.”
― Alicia Britt Chole, 40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Hunger. A Different Kind of Fast.

“What you stay focused on will grow.”
― Roy T. Bennett

“Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“our ministries exist not simply for the purpose of helping people live well now; our ministries, like our whole lives, must aim for the end, when we’ll see Jesus face-to-face. The”
― Gloria Furman, Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
― Bill Gates

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
― Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
― Bill Gates

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
― Bill Gates

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
― Bill Gates

“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
― Bill Gates

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
― Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
― Bill Gates

“Power comes not from knowledge kept but from knowledge shared.”
― Bill Gates

“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
― Bill Gates

“Your income is determined by how many people you serve and how well you serve them.”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“People, remember this: no matter what your training, no matter what your skills, no matter what area you’re in, you are your most important commodity. The most valuable gift you have to offer is you.”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea

“Your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment.” Joe”
― Bob Burg, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea