And this is one of the most serious problems facing Christians today. Many sincere, dedicated believers struggle with tremendous confusion about when it is biblically appropriate to set limits. When confronted with their lack of boundaries,
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“This lesson is, I suppose, a major reason I wrote this book: because along the way I’ve picked up the wisdom that bad things happen, and yet the sun still comes up the next day, and it’s up to you to carry on living your life and keeping your setbacks in perspective. You also have to understand that on some level, these horrible and sad things happen to everyone; the mark of a man is not just how he survives it all but also what wisdom he’s gained from the experience.”
― I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
― I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend
“Compassion is an astoundingly, frustratingly affirming force. It Loves the other enough to find beauty and meaning in what the rest of us lazily judge as good or bad. Ahava Love, the brand that has the other’s interests more in view than its own preferences being perfectly tended to, searches and finds the thing to celebrate.”
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
“Desperation yields dependency, and dependency yields power. And as you decrease your earthly abilities through sacrifice and embracing less, you’ll see your spiritual fruit increase.”
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
― Enough: Finding More by Living with Less
“You can’t make a difference without making waves, and some people in the boat won’t like it. So be it. Rock the boat anyway.”
― Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
― Play the Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be
“It’s helpful to think most of my withheld forgiveness and grace toward others can legitimately be catalogued as idolatry. What else is it when I expect you to cure me of my anxiety and work miracles so that I might have my happiness back? Is there anything as unloving, or as crazy, as holding you to a standard I know you can’t reach and then blaming you for my sense of disappointment afterward?”
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
― Experiments in Honesty: Meditations on Love, Fear and the Honest to God Naked Truth
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