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.

Michael Card
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More Quotes By Michael Card
  1. People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

  2. 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.

  3. True friends define each other.

  4. 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.

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

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