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Language brings with it an identity and a culture, or at least the perception of it. A shared language says “We’re the same.” A language barrier says “We’re different.”
“So it is that the small things are the big things, and the tiny routines run the deepest.”
― Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
― Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms
“Tears are the safety value of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it .”
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“But just cause they don’t have something in English doesn’t mean they don’t have it in England, know what I mean?”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.”
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
― Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.”
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