“The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.”
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“God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.”
― Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender
― Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender
“As long as we live, our self-absorption and our insecurity will walk together, holding hands and swinging them back and forth like two little girls on their way to a pretend playground they can never find. Human nature dictates that most often we will be as insecure as we are self-absorbed. The best possible way to keep from getting sucked into the superficial narcissistic mentality that money, possessions, and sensuality can satisfy and secure us is to deliberately give ourselves to something much greater...[Christ] showed us that giving, rather than getting, is the means to receiving...to find yourself, your true self, you must lose yourself in something larger.”
― So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
― So Long, Insecurity: You've Been a Bad Friend to Us
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