Ian DeVaney
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“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing--that when we look for what's best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something sacred.”
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“Joy is the settled assurance that God is in control of all the details of my life, the quiet confidence that ultimately everything is going to be all right, and the determined choice to praise God in all things.”
― Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
― Choose Joy: Because Happiness Isn't Enough
“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.”
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