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...violence. "There are credible messengers who can go in and influence change in behaviors," says Tio Hardiman, director of the gang mediation arm of Chicago's program, also called CeaseFire. "Some of these guys used to run the streets and they have backbone and fortitude and they let them know they should be putting the shooting behind them, and the data we have is backing up our claims...
...hurt by the actions of church members, such as when your husband was removed from a leadership position. How difficult has that been? It's unfortunate. I feel my relationship with God is strong enough that when other Christians have treated me wrongly, I can sort it out and know that's not God. But I think it's more difficult for many people to make that distinction. When they're hurt by the church, they feel hurt by God as well. And so sometimes their tendency is to reject God as well as his people...
...write that often instead of following God's will, people try to compromise by doing some of what they think they're supposed to while still staying within a comfort zone. You know, God sent Abraham to Canaan, but Abraham didn't go to Canaan - he stopped 200 miles out, in Haran. And it just didn't work. Compromising with God never does. There are a lot of people living in Haran. They call themselves Christians and they probably are, but they haven't gone all the way. It took Abraham 40 years to get to the point where...
...great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. When I climb a building, I've been there already, and carefully planned how to start the climb as well as how to do it. Maybe if there were 1,000 of them, they could stop me." -To a London Daily Telegraph reporter, June...
...thought I might fall, but you know, when you are facing a problem where your life is in danger, there is only one option." - On climbing the Sears Tower in 1999; heavy humidity made the building's glass windows very slick. (In an interview with Buildering.net, June...