"It takes imagination to believe a marriage will work, that you can master a language or learn a job skill. When times were tough in the early years of our marriage, my wife and I imagined that we could make it and that better days were ahead. Many a marriage has been saved by a woman's willingness to say, 'So what if my old man is not a handsome prince on a white charger, he is still my husband and, when I get through with him, he'll be somebody I can be proud to call my own.' " ---Walter Albritton
in Lord, Please Deliver Me, I Beg You, from Another Live Manger Scene
"We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail. Never allow that the haphazard is anything less than God's appointed order, and be ready to discover the Divine designs anywhere." ---Oswald Chambers
" . . . a small fellowship. We hear each other's stories. We discover each other's glories. We learn to walk with God together. We pray for each other's healing. We cover each other's back. This small core fellowship is the essential ingredient for the Christian life. Jesus modeled it for us for a reason. Sure, he spoke to the masses. But he lived in a little platoon, a small fellowship of friends and allies. His followers took his example and lived this way, too." ---John Eldredge in Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive
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