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“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE”
― Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus
― Give Them Grace: Dazzling Your Kids with the Love of Jesus

“People can meet God within their cultural context but in order to follow God, they must cross into other cultures because that’s what Jesus did in the incarnation and on the cross.”
― Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart
― Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart

“Luther also said that one of our biggest problems was our own “goodâ€� works. They obscure our need for a Savior. “At the cross,â€� said Gerhard Forde, “God has stormed the last bastion of the self, the last presumption that you were really going to do something for him.â€� Genuine freedom awaits all who stop trusting in their own work and start trusting in Christ’s work.”
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News
― It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News

“Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.”
― Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
― Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

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