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Faith grows when we assume the position of one who can’t do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.

— John Townsend Where Is God (2009)

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Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.

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Trust in and value the benefit of God’s compassion and identification.

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The essence of grace is that God is for you.

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“Where are You?” can be both a protest against a problem and a search for understanding and perspective.

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Our image of God, whom we can’t see, is deeply affected by people, whom we can see.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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