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"...Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don't develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well."
"If I have the smile of God, all other frowns are inconsequential."
"God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior."
"If you're a Christian how do you deal with stress without Jesus? You don't."
"No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career — something will inevitably ruin it."
"Grace is the free, unmerited favor of God, working powerfully on the mind and heart to change lives."
"Unless you believe the gospel, everything you do will be driven by either pride or fear."
"Humility is so shy. If you begin talking about it, it leaves."
"Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God."
"Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination."
"Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite."
"Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross"
"If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them."
"If you wait until your motives are pure and unselfish before you do something, you will wait forever."
"Christ will do everything for you or nothing. He's either all of your righteousness or none."
"The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it."
"Easter means that Christmas worked."
"How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed non of the religions have?"
"You can only afford to be generous if you actually have some money in the bank to give. In the same way, if your only source of love and meaning is your spouse, then anytime he or she fails you, it will not just cause grief but a psychological cataclysm. If, however, you know something of the work of the Spirit in your life, you have enough love "in the bank" to be generous to your spouse even when you are not getting much affection or kindness at the moment."
"If you are a child of God, you don’t lose your status if you have a bad week."