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"We all guard against sins of commission and we are vigilant toward sins of omission. But achievements-even in small doses-can make us vulnerable to sins of ADDITION: adding niceties and luxuries to our list of basic needs, adding imaginations onto the strong back of vision, adding self-satisfaction to the purity of peace."

"We are duly thankful, challenged, and inspired by Jesus' forty-day fast from food in the Judean wilderness. Perhaps we should likewise be grateful, awed, and humbled by His thirty-year fast from praise, power, and potential in Nazareth. It takes a great deal of strength to choose weakness."

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”

—C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)