"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

Cause, Truth, Power, Life, Regret

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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

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"The promises of God hold up long after the promises of the world have blown up."

Hope

"To grasp love, I must grasp the fact that it is a creation of God and therefore it is forever beyond me. But the very fact that it is forever beyond me is the very thing that prompts me to forever pursue it."

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"The wisdom to be on the throne of one's life must surpass the wisdom of the one being ruled, otherwise I will squander the whole of my life in the most appalling ways. By virtue of that reality, I would be wise to get out of the chair and invite God to have a seat."

Leadership

"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."

Gratitude

"Tomorrow' is the thing that's always coming but never arrives. 'Today' is the thing that's already here and never leaves. And because that's the case, I would much prefer to invest in today than sit around waiting for an arrival that's not arriving."

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"The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that we have enough brilliance in our own blandness to see it."

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"Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was."

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"The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known."

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"We have a choice. We can be jaded by what we've lost, or joyous over what that thing had accomplished while we had it."

Perspective

"I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing."

Growth