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The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the english language. those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. but they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

-Donald Miller

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The Words 'alone,' 'lonely,' And 'loneliness' Are

Donald Miller

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the english language. those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. but they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

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The key to christian living is a thirst and hunger for god. and one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for god is so small.

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