A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires … - Eugene H. Peterson

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Told reporters Wednesday he can support a pathway to citizenship for some of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the U. S. and that he actually prefers it to a plan that would create a second-class of citizens through alternative programs.

Eugene H. Peterson

A person has to get fed up with the ways of the world before he, before she acquires an appetite for the world of grace.

Fed, Grace, Way, Ways, World

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The silence that makes it possible to hear God speak also makes it possible for us to hear the world's words for what they really are - tinny and unconvincing lies.

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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

Faith, Life, Meant, Pilgrim, Pilgrims, Tourists

The Latin words humus, soil
earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble. ' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.

Humble, Humility, Knows, Latin, Lord

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

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God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

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Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am always puzzling over how to draw such things.

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I'll fight a man with three children and a nice house any day over a man that's living out of a car.

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J. I. Packer

God's Word is not presented in Scripture in the form of a theological system, but it admits of being stated in that form, and, indeed, requires to be so stated before we can properly grasp it - grasp it, that is, as a whole. Every text has its immediate context in the passage from which it comes, its broader context in the book to which it belongs, and its ultimate context in the Bible as a whole; and it needs to be rightly related to each of these contexts if its character, scope and significance is to be adequately understood.

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