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To forgive is to set a prisoner free and to discover the prisoner was you.

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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

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A man is powerful on his knees.

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A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

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And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When he tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

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