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When you thought you were drowning, what did you desire most?” The man gasped, “Air.” Back came Buddha’s reply, “When you want salvation as much as you wanted air, then you will get it.
Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.
I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.
Before repeating something bad about another person, ask yourself these three questions: Is it true? Is it necessary for me to tell it? Is it kind to tell it?I can become so interested in what I have that I forget the needs of my soul.
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.
Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.
