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Danger
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"On the whole, I do not find Christians,
outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone
have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as
I suspect does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing
on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill
a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies straw hats to church; we
should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers
and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping God
may someday wake and take offense, or the waking God may draw us out to
where we can never return."
Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to
Talk 40-41 |
| "If those who prepare for leadership are
looking for the safe place, who will lead the church into the dangerous
places?" Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable Force, 32 |
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"To live outside of God's will puts us
in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous." Erwin McManus, An Unstoppable
Force, 33.
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| Death |
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"It's not that I'm afraid to die.
I just don't want to be there when it happens." --Woody Allen--
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"If I could drop dead right now, I'd
be the happiest man alive!" -- Pete Townshend --
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"If you live to the age of a hundred
you have it made, because very few people die past the age of a hundred."
-- George Burns --
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Deadlines
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"I love deadlines. I especially like
the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." --Douglas Adams--
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Decision Making
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"When you come to a fork in the road,
take it." -- Yogi Berra --
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Desire
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"If there lurks in most modern minds
the notion that to desire our own good and earnestly to hope for the enjoyment
of it is a bad thing, I submit that this notion has crept in from Kant
and the Stoics and is no part of the Christian faith. Indeed, if
we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature
of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds
our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures,
fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered
us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in the a
slum because he cannot imagine what is meant to the offer of a holiday
at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." --C.S. Lewis-- (The Weight
of Glory, 4)
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"Man finds it hard to get what he
wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give,
because He would give the best, and man will not take it."
-- George MacDonald --
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"Desire is the soul of prayer. The
cause of insufficienct prayer is often lack of desire." --Andrew Murray
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Destiny
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"To every man there comes in his lifetime
that special moment when he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and
offered that chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted
to his talents."
-- Winston Churchill --
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Dieting
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"Never eat more than you can lift"
--Miss Piggy--
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Difficulties
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"Let us not be surprised when we have
to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots
stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us
not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit
to resist."
Amy Carmichael, Edges of His Ways,
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Direction
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"It's a question of whether we're
going to go forward to the future, or past to the back."
-- Dan Quayle --
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Directions
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"You've got to be very
careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get
there."
--Yogi Berra --
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Discernment
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"Discernment is God's call to intercession,
never to fault-finding."
-- Oswald Chambers --
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Discipleship
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"The true follower of Christ will
not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me? Rather he
will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what
may!"
-- A.W. Tozer--
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"...being a disciple means living
a disciplined life, and it is not very likely that you will get other disciples
unless you are one first."
-- Evelyn Underhill --
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| Discouragement |
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"I have never known God to use a discouraged
person."
--D.L. Moody--
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Discussion
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"I'm not going to discuss what I'm
going to bring up....Even if I don't discuss it, I'm not going to discuss
it." -- President George Bush (discussing his role with the press) --
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Disorder
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"The police in Chicago are not here
to create disorder, they are here to preserve it."
Richard Daley, Sr. (Mayor of Chicago)
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Distant (When God
hides his face)
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"The hiding of God's face toward us
is not on account of our sin or backsliding. God is simply working His
sovereign will, trusting that His children will love Him, even when they
do not understand His ways -- as in the case of Job."
-- Oswald Chambers, Devotions for a Deeper
LIfe, March 6 --
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Doing
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is
worth doing badly."
-- G.K. Chesterton What's Wrong
with the World, 320 --
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"It isn't what you wish to do, it's
what you will do for God that transforms your life."
-- Henrietta Mears --
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Doubt
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"Doubt is the shadow cast by faith."
-- Hans Kung --
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Dull or Exciting?
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"...dull people always want excitement"
G.K. Chesterton, Sidelights on
New London, p. 63
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