All in all, I have been and would continue to be a broken, sinful, and rather useless individual, consumed by my Fear, my Pride, and my Self, but, according to the grace and glory of God, I have been saved by Grace through Faith, and that not of myself, but the gift of God.
So, let Him receive all Glory, Honor, and Praise for the good work that He has begun and will continue to accomplish.
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"Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies, that these strong enemies of man have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.†-G. K. Chesterton
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"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket --safe, dark, motionless, airless-- it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell." -- C.S. Lewis
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"If he lacks this intensity, if his soul from the beginning is dispersed in the multifarious, he will never get time to make the movements [of faith], he will be constantly running errands in life, never enter into eternity, for even at the instant when he is closest to it he will suddenly discover that he has forgotten something for which he must go back. He will think that to enter eternity is possible the next instant, and that also is perfectly true, but by such considerations one never reaches the point of making the movements, but by their aid one sinks deeper and deeper into the mire." --Soren Kierkegaard
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"But to be able to fall down in such a way that the same second it looks as if one were standing and walking, to transform the leap of life into a walk, absolutely to express the sublime in the pedestrian--that only the knight of faith can do--and this is the one and only prodigy." --Soren Kierkegaard
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"My life, therefore, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness; not health but healing; not being but becoming; not rest, but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it; the process is not yet finished, but it is going on. This is not the end but the road; all does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified." --Martin Luther
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