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“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.”
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“But lament is different. The practice of lament—the kind that is biblical, honest, and redemptive—is not as natural for us, because every lament is a prayer. A statement of faith. Lament is the honest cry of a hurting heart wrestling with the paradox of pain and the promise of God’s goodness.”
― Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
― Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
“For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.”
― The Pilgrim's Progress
― The Pilgrim's Progress
“It is because we belong to Him that the devil will do his utmost to disturb and upset us. He cannot rob us of our salvation, thank God, but while he cannot rob us of our salvation he can make us miserable. He can, if we are foolish enough to listen to him, seriously limit our enjoyment of our salvation.”
― Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
― Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures
“Prayerful lament is better than silence. However, I've found that many people are afraid of lament. They find it too honest, too open, or too risky. But there's something far worse: silent despair. Giving God the silent treatment is the ultimate manifestation of unbelief. Despair lives under the hopeless resignation that God doesn't care, he doesn't hear, and nothing is ever going to change. People who believe this stop praying, they give up. This silence is a soul killer.”
― Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
― Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament
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