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Accidents
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"I'm not saying saying there won't
be an Accident now, mind you. They're funny things, Accidents.
You never have them till you're having them."
-- Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner
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Adventure
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"Life is either a daring adventure
or nothing." -- Helen Keller --
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"Every man dies, but not every man
lives."
-- William Wallace --
"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is
not what ships are built for."
-- John Shedd --
(Source: Tommy Barnett, Adventure
Yourself, 1, 19)
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"Always have your bags packed; you
never know where life's journey is going to take you."
-- Old Appalachian Saying --
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"How many people are radically and
permanently, repelled from The Way by Christians who are unfeeling, stiff,
unapproachable, boringly lifeless, obsessive, and dissatisfied? Yet such
Christians are everywhere, and what they are missing is the wholesome liveliness
springing from a balanced vitality with the freedom of God's loving rule."
-- Dallas Willard The Spirit of the
Disciplines, 80 --
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"The word 'Christian' means different
things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible
way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled
adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information
from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is
a dancing, leaping, daring life." -- Eugene Peterson --
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"Bearing the imprint of Christ as
we do and knowing the security that he alone can give, I am surprised that
Christians aren't the greatest adventurers on the face of the earth."
-- Tim Hansel --
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"From the cradle we understand our
need for adventure, even though it is easily lost as we grow older...I
am surprised though, that Christians who claim the wild message of Jesus
Christ aren't out on the edge of adventure more often. I have seen all
too frequently young and old alike withdraw beneath the shields of niceness,
apathy, and boredom in order to avoid the high cost of loving and serving
Christ. The pew has gotten too comfortable, and we are suffering immensely
from a paucity of real adventure."
--Tim Hansel--
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"Faith is the heroic effort of your
life. You fling yourself in reckless confidence on God. God has ventured
all in Jesus Christ to save us. Now he wants us to venture our all in a
life that can face anything it has to face without wavering....Again and
again, you will get up to what Jesus Christ wants, and every time, you
turn back when it comes to that point until you abandon resolutely....Jesus
Christ demands that you risk everything you hold by common sense--and leap
into what He says....Christ demands of the man who trust Him the same reckless
spirit....that is daring enough to step out of the crowd and bank his faith
on the character of God."
-- Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His
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"The great tragedy in life is that
most people spend their entire lives indefinitely preparing to live." --
Paul Tournier --
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"Even if you are on the right track,
you will get run over if you just sit there." --Will Rogers--
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"Being on the tightrope is living;
everything else is waiting" --Karl Wallenda--
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"You can't steal second base and keep
one foot on first." --Anon.--
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Adversity
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"Adversity shoves you down to your
core values and beliefs, to the things that matter most. Back on
bedrock, you find the reasons and strength to carry on and carry through."
-- Pat Riley, The Winner Within, 82.
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"It is a rough road that leads to
the heights of greatness." -- Seneca --
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"Adversity is the best book on my
bookshelf." -- Martin Luther --
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity"
-- William Shakespeare --
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"The things which hurt, instruct."
-- Benjamin Franklin --
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"Adversity causes some men to break,
others to break records." -- William Ward --
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Advertising
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"Advertising may be described as the
science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from
it." -- Stephen Leacock --
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Agenda
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"Try to give your agenda to God.
Keep saying, 'Your will be done, not mine.' Give every part of your heart
and your time to God and let God tell you what to do, where to go, when
and how to respond. God does not want you to destroy yourself.
Exhaustion, burnout, and depression are not signs that you are doing God's
will. God is gentle and loving. God desires to give you a deep
sense of safety in God's love. Once you have allowed yourself to
experience that love fully, you will be better able to discern who you
are being sent to in God's name." -- Henry Nouwen, The Inner Voice
of Love, 106 --
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Aging
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"You're never too old to do goofy
stuff." -- Ward Cleaver, Leave it to Beaver --
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"The secret to staying young is to
live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
-- Lucille Ball --
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Anger
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"Hot heads and cold hearts never solved
anything." -- Billy Graham --
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"Anyone who angers you conquers you."
-- Sister Kenny --
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"Unholy tempers are always unhappy
tempers." -- John Wesley --
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"Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is
possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances
long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations
still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you
are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways it is a feast
fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down
is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you."
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking,
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Anointing
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"I am perfectly confident that the
man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing
of the Holy Spirit. The world must be left outside until God alone
fills the vision...God has promised to answer prayer. It is not that
He is unwilling, for the fact is, He is more willing to give than we are
to receive. But the trouble is, we are not ready..."
--Oswald J. Smith Enduement, 56-58--
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Answers
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"In the midst of a generation screaming
for answers, Christians are stuttering."
-- Howard Hendricks --
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Anxiety
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"The beginning of anxiety is the end
of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."
-- George Mueller --
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"No man ever sank under the burden
of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of
today, that the weight is more than a man can bear."
-- George MacDonald --
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Apostasy
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"Apostasy begins in the closet. No
man ever backslid from the life and power of Christianity who continued
constant and fervent in private prayer. he who prays without ceasing is
likely to rejoice evermore." -- Adam Clarke --
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Attitude
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"The longer I live the more convinced
I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how
we respond to it."
-- Chuck Swindoll --
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Authenticity
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"O how serious is this matter of authenticity
in the Christian life! A decision for Christ is not nearly so crucial
as a life for Christ. Only reality counts with God."
-- John Piper, A Godward Life, 257
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"What the world longs for from the
Christian religion is the witness of men and women daring enough to be
different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burned in
the fire of love, real enough to make others see how unreal they are.
Jesus, Son of the living God, anoint us with the fire this day. Let
your Word not shine in our hearts, but let it burn. Let there be no division,
compromise, or holding back. Separate the mystics from the romantics
and goad us to that daredevil leap into the abyss of your love."
-- Brennan Manning (Souveneirs of
Solitude) --
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Autobiography
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"I don't think anybody should write
his autobiography until after he's dead."
-- Sam Goldwyn --
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Awe
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"The complaint that church is boring
is never made by people in awe."
-- R. C. Sproul The Holiness of God,
176.
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