J. Grant Howard Quotes

#1. I feel compelled to clarify, simplify, and personalize truth.

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#2. It is important that you know who you are, where you stand, where you came from, what you have, what you can do, and who is with you.

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#3. But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

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#4. Many options are not transparent. They need to be explored and evaluated with care. What you see is not always what you get.

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#5. It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

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#6. Too much of a good thing can be bad. After all, you can drown even in clear, clean, pure water.

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#7. Sometimes our needs drive us to the Word; sometimes the Word alerts us to our needs.

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#8. Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.

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#9. Our part in life may seem small, but it should bulk large in our thought when we remember that it is helping to complete the plan of the Divine Architect.

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#10. Growth ought to simplify life. Right? Wrong. The more truth I assimilate, the more I am aware of what I should be and do. You know what this produces? Tension. God-imposed tension! The growing, obedient Christian will always live with this kind of pressure.

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#11. You're different. We all are. We are each "one of a kind." This means each of us will live the Christian life differently.

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#12. The world is a treadmill, and we are being pulled backward on it if we aren't consciously walking forward.

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#13. The prescription for perplexed people who are tempted to be pessimistic is to rejoice, do good, and recognize that our ability to work, eat, and drink is the gift of God.

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#14. Our differences will also show up from time to time, underscoring the uniqueness of our personal endowments, the variety of our experiences, and the creativity of our sovereign God.

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#15. Just as we can play beautiful music only when the strings on the violin are in proper tension, so we can grow only when we are stretched from what we are to what we can be. There is no growth without tension.

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#16. We may get so fixed on one area that we neglect everything else. Life becomes like a tire with a bald spot that is ballooning and ready to blow out. That makes the going rough. For everybody. Long before the blow out.

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#17. Requests will always exceed resources. Doing good is imperative. Doing everything is impossible.

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