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.
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Related Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN If we become completely whole-hearted we will have love for all people and will seek in each person ... EBERHARD ARNOLD When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea... PHILIP T.M Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off... ANDREA DWORKIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON There is more in us than we know if we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives w... KURT HAHN We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present ... THEODORE C. SORENSEN It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When... THOMAS MERTON We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We ... WENDELL BERRY The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too... MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too... MATTHEW KELLY The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is to... MICHELANGELO The greater danger for most of us is not
that our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too... MICHELANGELO Sometimes we simply don't want to face the truth about ourselves; the myth reads so much better. Som... SHEILA WALSH Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We rememb... JOHN WOODEN Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often ... FREDRIK BACKMAN Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying t... CARL HONORE It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of ac... WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN JR. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He ... STORMIE OMARTIAN Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our ... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to o... ROBERT D. HALES People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... When the challenges of mortality come, and they come for all of us, it may seem hard to have faith a... ROBERT BEVERLY HALE We will win this battle because we are fighting for our lives and the lives of our Clanmates. Our en... ERIN HUNTER We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ... WENDELL BERRY We have already had an amazing amount of support come from the community, but the only way our dream... JO VANDVER We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives. JOHN F. KELLY When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest h... E. F. SCHUMACHER If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or tw... LEMONY SNICKET We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we lov... THICH NHAT HANH The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and n... DRAGOS BRATASANU To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr... JUNE JORDAN We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. Bu... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, ... F. D. MAURICE Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see... SUNDAY ADELAJA We thought this would be a great place for all of us to gather. We just wanted to be able to be wher... DONNA ORENDER What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN The one redeeming factor with this scheme is the claim that it will create 800 jobs. But most of tho... CHRIS LEWIS We will struggle regardless of what we choose to do with our lives. Why not struggle for what we wan... CHARLIE JAMES The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsib... GIFFORD PINCHOT Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 We are not only to renounce evil, but t... J. HUDSON TAYLOR What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives. STEPHEN RICHARDS It is our intention that one day every building will be fully accessible. Accessibility is something... JAMES SUTHERLAND They will be gunning for us, just like everyone we play from here on out will be. We had one of our ... JOE BELYEU There are moments of heartache and heartbreak, that we wonder how we did not drop dead in our pain. ... MISHI MCCOY If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God ... BROTHER YUN We must know that when we invite people into our lives, we are not just inviting people; but we are ... C. JOYBELL C. It is certainly difficult for us to see Mother in a weakened state. Because our faith is so strong a... YOLANDA KING Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why w... MIKE YACONELLI Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not. SONYA.E.WILLIAMS This is another eye-opener for us, and I expect that our level of play will increase and it will pic... SEIMONE AUGUSTUS In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is pe... WAYNE MULLER We've established a Washington State Academy of Sciences that will enable us to make decisions b... CHRISTINE GREGOIRE We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know o... GUY FINLEY My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot kn... MARY BALOGH Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev... GORDON B. HINCKLEY I have faith that the illusions we currently hold about who we are will not sustain us. I trust huma... AMY MCTEAR The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be... KELSANG GYATSO You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But on... URSULA K. LE GUIN We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL At some point in our lives we make a decision, he thought, a choice that, though we don't understand... ANTTI TUOMAINEN We make big stops when we need them. And we're getting better with our (offense). We're just trustin... LARA GRAY We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou... JOSEPH EPSTEIN We are not mentally tired, although physically we might be a bit. This will be our Cup final, not ou... GEORGE BOATENG We think that at this point in our lives, the sooner we get back to what we think our gift is, is wr... BARRY GIBB I would like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us: you will look ... OLIVE SCHREINER For us it is not a surprise that Jiri is not on our team. We still have a strong team, we play at ho... CYRIL SUK Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and our ability to serve and love and laugh ... KRISTEN MCMAIN OAKS Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth... RONALD REAGAN Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that so... R.C. SPROUL We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world. ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it. STACEY T. HUNT Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i... JULIA CAMERON It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our ch... GLENN BECK Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 The heart's slavish and dogged devot... ROBERT L. SHORT God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our... WALTER MARTIN Protein, we keep being told, is the vital nutrient that will give us a boost. It will burn fat, buil... BEE WILSON We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermi... ADAM SCHIFF We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will... ISMAIL HANIYEH For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like... WILLIAM BARCLAY I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the... DAVID R. BROWER It sends a message to our future promoter prospects that we will not settle for anything less than t... JOE CHRNELICH When we apply the lessons we've struggled for our whole lives to learn to the lives of people we lov... ASPEN MATIS It will be fun to see Auburn again. We knocked them out of the tournament last season so we are goin... BRYAN HENRY The simple fact is that we will need our most experienced guys for what will be a massively difficul... FRANK HADDEN Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all... PETER DIAMANDIS None of us really has any idea how many lives we touch or what impact we have on those lives. In mos... CAROLYN BAKER We will not go and risk our lives for dumb people. DAN BURNETT In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a cre... HENRI NOUWEN We know over the next few days people will criticize us and rightly so because our performances have... GARY NEVILLE
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