Michael Card Quotes

#1. Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

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#2. People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

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#3. But the Promise showed their wildest dreams had simply not been wild enough.

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#4. Seeing ourselves through the eyes of grace frees us to be for others all we need to be.

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#5. The role of silence is to create the space where we encounter the silent Presence.

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#6. You need to be confronted
By the Stranger on the shore
You need to have Him search your soul
You need to hear the call
You need to learn exactly
What it means for you to follow
You need to realize that He's asking for your all.

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#7. A hunger for beauty is at its heart a hunger for God.

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#8. There comes a moment in our lives when some of the pieces of the puzzle come together - where all our past experiences, both good and bad, are brought to bear in causing us to become who God intends us to be.

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#9. But our wounds are part of who we are ... and there is nothing left to chance ... And pain's the pen that writes the songs ... That call us forth to dance

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#10. To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

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#11. Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.

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#12. True friends define each other.

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#13. To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

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#14. God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

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#15. The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.

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#16. There is no proof great enough to prevent doubt. Ir you base your belief on proof, sooner or later you will sink!

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#17. To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.

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