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"It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you."
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"God punishes people, who belittle Him with their complaints."

"Hold fast to God, do not give up and He will fulfill His Word concerning you, for He is faithful who has promised."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."

"When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to trust! We can be too weak to go on because His strength is made perfect in utter brokenness and nail-pierced hands help up. It is safe to trust! We can give thanks in everything because there's a good God leading, working all things into good. It is safe to trust! The million bridges behind us may seem flattened to the earthly eye, but all bridges ultimately hold, fastened by nails. It is safe to trust."

"A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success."

"I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely."
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"Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside."

"Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter."

"My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are."

"It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do."

"A good marriage is supposed to be one where each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal."

"I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom had told me--that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but certainty. Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns."

"You are going to feel like hell if you never write the stuff that is tugging on the sleeves in your heart--your stories, visions, memories, songs: your truth, your version of things, in your voice. That is really all you have to offer us, and it's why you were born."

"If you don't know where to start, remember that every single thing that happened to you is yours and you get to tell it."
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