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"A person's faith goes at its own pace. The trouble with church is the service. A service is conducted for a mass audience. Just when I start to like the hymn, everyone plops down to pray. Just when I start to hear the prayer, everyone pops up to sing. And what does the stupid sermon have to do with God? Who knows what God thinks of current events? Who cares?"
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"Some of us read the Bible to quote God's words back to Him so as to get Him to make us live a discomfort free life. The reason is not far-fetched - God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose."
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"God's desire is that Christians would not just be believers in word but He wants everyone who looks at us to see him in us."
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"You only honor and worship God when you do things without expecting anything in return."
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"We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles."
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"Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him."
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"All the earth is to bring praise to God."
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"Set out time to worship God in your closet, give Him quality praise and watch Him raise you."
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"The church is a house of prayer for all nations."
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"Worship without honor is meaningless."
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"Your power depends on how much time you spend fellowshipping with God."
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"And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you."
Writing
"It s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans."
Relationship
"There's no reason you should write any novel quickly."
Reason
"I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin."
Business
"She asserted that the best fictional detail was a chosen detail, not a remembered one - for fictional truth was not only the truth of observation, which was the truth of mere journalism. The best fictional detail was the detail that should have defined the character or the episode or the atmosphere. Fictional truth was what should have happened in a story - not necessarily what did happen or what had happened."
Literature
"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."
Being
"Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving--Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home."
Grief
"People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a kind of support.' And who can blame them? It is just infuriating to argue with someone like that; because of an experience that has denied them their humanity, they go around denying another kind of humanity in others, which is the truth of human variety -- it stands alongside our sameness."
Humanity
"Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us."
Gender
"In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?"
Learning
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