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"Only this actual moment is life."
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Personal Development
"Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment."
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Personal Development
"For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasn't anything but her and him, and he opened his eyes to look on her face, to fix it in his mind forever."
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Personal Development
"My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future."
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Personal Development
"We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart's beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own."
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Personal Development
"To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think."
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Personal Development
"Divine presence gives meaning to what seems to have no meaning."
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Personal Development
"Wouldn't you like to arrive to any event or situation with a sense of confidence and ease that things are as they need to be?"
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Personal Development
"The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times."
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Personal Development
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
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"The difference between a 'man' and a 'father' is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life."
Family
"Ethics are the things that say, 'Don't stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It's okay because we've shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we've chosen to listen to the world and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I'm having a really hard time getting back up."
Ethics
"Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless."
Faith
"Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man."
Faith
"I am likely to fail if I have determined the cost as too high or my intelligence as too low. Yet, if I think about it, the real failure rests in believing either of these to be true."
Confidence
"Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope."
Justice
"It might not be about perfection. Rather, it may be that that which is imperfect is that which has the most character."
Character
"The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass into oblivion without unflinchingly declaring that my life carries a value worth the expenditure of His. And if I dare look upon the cross, I am utterly perplexed but wholly enraptured by the immensity of such a love as this."
Sacrifice
"What I allow into my head finds its way to my heart, which is a porthole to my soul. Therefore, I might be wise to consider the state of my soul, and then walk this process backwards."
Mindfulness
"We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists."
Insight
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