The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws in the system.

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So don't let money tell you who you are. Don't let power tell you who your are. Don't let enemies and -- for God's sake -- don't let your sins tell you who you are. Don't prove yourself. That's taken care of. All we have to do is express ourselves. It's difficult, but we're a lot more alive in pain than in complacency.

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All of life is the exercise of risk.

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If your heart is full of fear, you won't seek truth; you'll seek security. If a heart is full of love, it will have a limbering effect on the mind.

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A spiritual person tries less to be godly than to be deeply human.

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When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.

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Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word -- to science, to history, to what reason and our own experience tell us. We do not honor the higher truth we find in Christ by ignoring truths found elsewhere.

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When we live at each other's mercy, we had better learn to be merciful.

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There is no smaller package in the world that that of a person all wrapped up in himself.

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