John Townsend Quotes

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The message of Scripture is that God wants us to connect both with Him and also with each other.

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Be the kind of person you want to be attracted to. You will find that you are less and less drawn to people with difficult character issues and more desirous to find people who are full of grace, safety, acceptance, and a hunger to grow.

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Leading from your inner world ultimately produces better results in your leadership.

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Connecting with others during difficult times makes the trials more bearable.

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I would not feel a lot of trust or hope in God if He was simply in touch with me without any impetus, power, or force to accomplish things. You may not always know the end game, but He is working for you.

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I have noticed in this economic downturn that more of my friends talk about God…

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What is faith? Faith is trusting God for your problems and for your life.

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We want to know that life is good. Not perfect but good. Not problem free, but good. Good in some way that we did not anticipate. Good in some way that connects us to God, others, and our purposes in life.

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Hope is impossible unless we experience empathy and identification. We cannot feel hopeful that things will be OK unless someone understands what we are going through and gets it.

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Where are You? can be both a protest against a problem and a search for understanding and perspective.

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…the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

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It is a comfort to us that Jesus didn't suffer in silence or with a smile.

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…faith in God creates the possibility that even if our situations do not change, life can be good.

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Open your heart and your sad feelings to Him and the safe people He brings to you.

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…the big picture of our spiritual growth is not an event but the development of the habit of relationship with God.

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Whatever our situation, we feel some sense of confusion, anxiety, and helplessness. At the same time, we think about God and wonder where He is.

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Where do you go when hard times hit? Most of the time, our tendency is to enter our internal cave…we naturally shut down, withdraw from it all, and try to figure things out on our own, reemerging from life when we have some sense of centeredness.

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Trust in and value the benefit of God's compassion and identification.

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Our tendency is to be strong, self-sufficient, and dependent on our own willpower, but rather than try harder, we should reach out to the God who is all-powerful…

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We must exercise faith. We don't pretend we're fine. We don't deny it. But we trust in Him.

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Faith grows when we assume the position of one who can't do it all by himself. That means we go to God, follow Him, and ask Him for help.

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David, the man after God's own heart, got right to it and spilled out his guts about his experience: How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever?

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It is easy to think that we should put up a brave front and stay positive about all our struggles. But that is not the biblical model.

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…there is something beyond our circumstances, and that is an emotional, from-the-heart connection to God, no matter what is going on in our lives.

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Some of us have young faith, some broken faith, and some mature faith.

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Our image of God, whom we can't see, is deeply affected by people, whom we can see.

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Though your experience may indicate that God has forgotten you or has left you alone, He is on your side. He is the God of grace, and He is actively working on your behalf.

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I can't keep count of the times when I have seen how hard times make people much more relationally accessible than they were before their difficulty.

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He has always been here, and He is here now. He loves you and is working actively for your good in His own way.

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