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     “Well—well, if you believed in God your case would not be hopeless. But some men—a few out of the many wanderers—find God out here in these wilds.”

               --Zane Grey (Wanderer of the Wasteland)

     "For it is God who works in you both to will and to do His good pleasure."

               --Philippians 2:13 (NKJV)

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There is a verse that has long made me ponder, "...work out your own salvation with fear and trembling." (Philippians…

     “Today had always been more important than either yesterday, which could not be changed, or tomorrow, which he could only guess at.”

               --Elmer Kelton (The Smiling Country)

     “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full."

               --John 15:11 (NKJV)

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This world is evil, it is under the power of the devil. Yet we should traverse through this life with a smile on our…

     “They had not yet discovered the impartiality of death.”

               --Louis L'Amour (How the West Was Won)

     "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"

               --1 Corinthians 15:55 (NKJV)

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What can happen in a year, a day, a moment? It only takes a second for an accident to happen. We may be going along on our merry way, when suddenly disaster strikes. Out of the shadows, the enemy lurks and then…

     “Each day is the start of something new that gives us the choice to decide what we want to make out of it."

               --Duane Boehm (Sun Over the Mountains)

     "By faith he [Moses] forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible."

               --Hebrews 11:27 (NKJV)

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I thought about saying that all want to live with a quiet heart. But upon second thought, there are many who are…