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If you want a way to gauge your spiritual growth, says Paul, this is how you can do it: evaluate your capacity to give and receive love. What is the strength and depth of your love relationships with God, others and with yourself? That is
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“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 comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
“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
“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
“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
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