"No intelligent design would make life as purposeless and boring as dust collecting on a basketball. Even with that comparison we're assuming that there may be some purpose to the life in which that basketball is present. Soon time is up and we have no idea we ever existed, leaving no reason to exist now. Nothing that lasts. All that has lasted of the past only exist as memories. Memories only exist as long as our physical minds work and they now only exist in the present. If there is no spirit world, no afterlife, no God, nothing more than time, then we are as good as done and nothing we know is purposeless enough to compare to how purposeless life would then be. When time is gone time is gone. What we should be concerning ourselves with then, is what may be outside of time - making the only thing worth doing in life seeking God."
--Mark
"There's no way where there's no will. There's no will where there's no intelligence. There is no intelligence where there is no love. There is no love where there is no God."
--Mark
"Random chemical reactions are not love. If all there is is the physical, everything is random and purposeless. Only by God is there purpose. Only by God is there love."
--Mark
"When you know the roots you know the tree. Then the fruit is under your control."
--Mark
"You're not done after learning that something is true. Keep learning just how true it is, applying it to every part of your perception; to every problem that arises. Truth is infinite as it is of God."
--Mark
"Verbal language can never do our hearts justice. Nobody understands your heart - but the one who is beyond physical language."
--Mark
"There is no way around logic. If you manage to reach a certain goal without using a commonly known logical method, you have not manouvered around logic, because seeing as how whatever you did brought you success, it is therefore, logical. If it did NOT bring you success, then why did you go that route?"
--Mark
"Never mistake desensitization for growing up. While desensitizaion of the mind may make you strong and patient - desensitization of your heart makes you unusable by God. His word combined with the guidance of His Holy Spirit teaches discernment so that we may know the difference."
--Mark
"Some believe that some people are just destined for hell. If you look at it like God being outside of time and knowing the end and that being that, then those who DO go to hell, have already gone to hell. The future is already done if you're unaffected by time. BUT, that cannot be put into the equation in our minds because we and the intelligence we have IS affected by time and we need to get our act together if we are not saved. He will judge our hearts, but I would never settle until I knew that I was saved, as I now do. As the living God has told me - and it is unmistakable."
--Mark
"Your folly and your pain is not an art to be embraced and flaunted. Only a fool takes pleasure in woe's company and the pitty others have for him. Such a fool is taking pleasure in sin. Feeding the beast. Giving the devil a foothold."
--Mark
"The sun must go down so that we can see the light in ourselves and learn how important it is to nurture it."
--Mark
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Luke 15:31 - And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
Joel 2:28 - I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Matthew 7:7 - Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
Psalms 126:5 - Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy.
JOKE POLICE 
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