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“In ourselves, we simply cannot find the courage to face ourselves honestly. How can I admit that my condition is desperate? But I did. I told God that left to myself, I would perish. No man or woman likes to say that. It seems like a total loss of—well, everything that matters—dignity, hope, and independence. But, in reality, to speak so plainly to the Father is to begin the move to the Father’s house.”

“ I am convinced today that most people have a dark heritage of fears in their inner self that has never been faced. Intense suffering simply exposes what was there all the time. But Jesus is very much concerned to help us face up to these fears and deal with them. There is certainly no power in us to do so.”

“Isn't Jesus wonderful? Sometimes in love He is severe with us, but He knows how to bring us into safe harbors at just the right time.
He lets the storm shake us up, so that we toss overboard our idols, and then we are free to sail into waters that are even more raging. But also He has those times where He guides us into a safe haven, and we rest in the quiet.”

“I have an ongoing struggle with listening, especially when issues are being considered that are very important to me. I get afraid that the wrong ideas will prevail. At such times I have an overpowering urge to talk rather than to ask questions and listen for answers from others. It seems supremely important that everyone be immediately brought to perfect clarity by my powers of illumination & persuasion.”
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For repentance is just humility, and humility stands in the low place, not on the mountains of pride. Therefore humility gets much grace because grace runs downhill!

“At the same time I do not think that an emphasis on grace leads to a soft ministry on sin and the severe demands of the law. Actually, it seems to me that such grace teaching makes it possible for sinners like us to hear the hardest things said about our sin patterns, and that can lead into a healthy sorrow which then leads back to sanity, i.e., repentance.”