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But what Yoda failed to realize was that anger could be a kind of fuel. In peaceful times Anakin might have been able to bridle his rage, but now he relied on it to drive him forward, to transform him into the person he needed to be.
“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
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“the center, the cornerstone, the jewel in the crown of Christianity is not an idea, a system or a thing; it is not even “the gospel” as such. It is Jesus Christ.”
― Rejoicing in Christ
― Rejoicing in Christ
“Thus if your tendency is to think you’re rather wonderful, just remember your prayer life.”
― Enjoy Your Prayer Life
― Enjoy Your Prayer Life
“Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of eternity.”
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“Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.”
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
― God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God's Love as the Gift of Himself
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