Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise. - Michael Card

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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Michael Card

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

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A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

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Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

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One of the most important lessons the Lord has taught me is that you are not your gift. That is, you are not defined by what you do or create. Jesus is a wonderful example of this. He would not allow the crowd to define Him by His considerable gifts, even though they tried to do so. Jesus always points away from Himself and His gifts and thereby wins praise for the Father. We are not our gifts. We are called to give more. Like Jesus, we are called to give ourselves. That is the real purpose behind our gifts; they are vehicles for giving the self.

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But our wounds are part of who we are. . . and there is nothing left to chance. . . . And pain's the pen that writes the songs. . . . That call us forth to dance

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The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

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I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

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