“[The Lord] can’t lift an unbowed head. . . .  Our necks will become stiff from all that straining.  But if we

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Christmas 1953 or 1954: I finish checking out Grandma Mary’s towering, ornamented Christmas tree. “Sacred Infant, all divine, / What a tender

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“Biblical humility flows out of a person not with low self-esteem, but with high God esteem.  This frees us to focus on

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“Satan . . . sometimes offers to teach us humility, but though I wish to be humble, I desire not to learn

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” ‘When the unstoppable bullet hits the impenetrable wall, we find religious experience,’ said Robert Johnson.  ‘It is precisely here that one

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“When God’s people speak out of their pain, they often speak things that are not necessarily true about reality but are true

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