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" The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable. "

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" The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training. "

" To have my mind racing and my heart beating fast over glorious possibilities is very close to the summit of life experience for me. "

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" Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety. "

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" Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. "

" Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed. "

" We call an obsession with having someone's approval 'co-dependency;' the Bible's word for it is idolatry. A country can be an idol. A family can be an idol. "

" For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them. "

" We do not need answers or formulas to minister in crisis. "

" Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all. "

" Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life. "

" The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking. "

" Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures. "

" The soul is both the most fragile and most resilient thing about you; a healthy soul is what holds you together when your world falls apart. Since you will carry your soul into eternity, it's worth checking up on it at least as often as your teeth. "

" A simple way to address hidden curriculum issues is to spend time talking with staff and key leaders about their spiritual lives. "

" Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue. "

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" What influences our behavior, and what our level of responsibility is, are very complex issues. And anytime we try to make this simplistic, we don't serve people well. "

" One of the reasons I'm an interesting person to be married to is my intensely late-blooming self-awareness. "

" I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism. "

" Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around. "

" Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. "