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A person who is unwilling to be honest with themselves also forfeits the capacity to be truthful with anyone else.

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The truth is often like a pill that gets stuck in your throat; though swallowing it can be painful, it ultimately does a body good.

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Just as it is ridiculous to think that you could bring a community together by standing on opposite sides of the street, hurling stones at one another, so it is for elected officials, who claim to want to bring the country together, while employing this same strategy from opposite sides of the aisle.

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“The danger in coming to a genuine understanding that God is always with us, is that we can easily become complacent in our efforts to always be with Him.”

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The longer I live, the more I understand how essential the journey is toward achieving destiny.  Ultimately, the truth only comes to life along the way.

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“Thinking ‘outside of the box’ only becomes worthwhile when you find a way to fit your new ideas into the box, or a way to expand the box to accommodate those new ideas.  Simply ignoring the reality of the box amounts to little more than fantasizing.  Ultimately, there’s a world of difference between a man with ideas and a man with a plan.”

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“I’ve come to believe that not only does God speak to us, but that He speaks in a way that we can understand.  I’ve also come to believe that the reason most of us feel as though we can’t recognize His voice is because He is so often saying things that we don’t want to hear.”

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“I would rather live by principles that brand me naïve and lead to hope, than to adopt a philosophy that can be empirically defended, yet results in despair.”

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What other people believe about you isn’t as important as what you believe about yourself.  Only those things which we accept as being truth have the ability to genuinely impact how we live.  Therefore the only words (positive or negative) that have the power to move us are those which we view as being true.  If a man concludes in his heart that he is a failure, no amount of praise or encouragement can bring him to victory; and if a man concludes that he is an over-comer, no amount of criticism can hold him back.  While we are generally powerless to keep others from speaking about us, we possess the ultimate responsibility for what we choose to accept as truth.

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God has called His people to be engaged in the world, but not to be invested in it.  A distorted view of holiness can cause us to miss the former, while misguided notions about evangelism can result in us falling to the latter.

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