Charles Swindoll Quote

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God will use failure in your life to break down that strong desire in your heart to see your name in lights.  And when He finally breaks you of that lust for recognition, He may place you before the lights like you’ve never imagined.  But then it won’t matter.  You won’t care if you’re prime time of small time, center stage or backstage, leading the charge or packing the baggage.  You’re just part of the king’s army.

From Galatians 5:26:  “Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.”

John Chrysostom Quote

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The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

From Matthew 19:4-6:  “He answered, ‘Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?  So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

John Chrysostom served the early Christian church during the late 4th century and early 5th century in Constantinople where he preached and was a prolific writer.

Randy Frazee Quote

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To love God and love our neighbor is the standard of God, which on our own we cannot achieve.  But in Christ, a new command is issued.

From Matthew 22:36-40:  “‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’  He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the greatest and first commandment.  And a second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.'”

Randy Frazee is an American pastor and Christian author.  As a teacher and innovator, he is dedicated to leading others in Bible engagement, spiritual formation, and biblical community.

Helen Steiner Rice Quote

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The darkest defeat turns to triumph if you trust in God’s wisdom and will.

From John 1:5:  “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.”

Helen Steiner Rice (1900-1981) was an American writer who specialized in Christian and inspirational poetry.

David Baldacci Quotes

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People who read are a lot more tolerant than people who don’t.

Passion is a rare commodity.  When you find it, treasure it and never give it up.

David Baldacci (born 1960) is an American novelist.  

Charles Stanley Quote

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We can’t avoid darkness or pain in this life.  But we can go to the Lord in our weakness, knowing that In Him we are made stronger.

From 2 Corinthians 3:17-18:  “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.”

Brene Brown Quotes

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Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.

Brene Brown (born 1965) is an American researcher and author.  Much of her work has studied courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.

Leighton Ford Quote

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God loves us the way we are, but He loves us too much to leave us that way.

From Hebrews 10:38-39:  “But my righteous one will live by faith.  My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back.  But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.”

Leighton Ford (born 1931) is a Canadian-born pastor and Christian evangelist.  During his fruitful life of ministry and witness, he has enjoyed relationships with other Christian teachers, including Billy Graham.  

Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, and philosopher.  He was considered to be one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England.

John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes

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The good is always beautiful, the beautiful good.

One brave deed makes no hero.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet.  His Quaker background entrusted him to advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States.