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"Just because you cannot realize your highest aspirations in work does not mean you have chosen wrongly, or are not called to your profession, or that you should spend your life looking for the perfect career that is devoid of frustration. ... You should expect to be regularly frustrated in your work even though you may be in exactly the right vocation."
"If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart"
"God invites us to come as we are, not stay as we are."
"All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause."
"The lack of joy in your life is due to your lack of mission."
"If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. We come to God saying, "Look at all I've done," or maybe "Look at all I've suffered." God, however, wants us to look to him - to just wash."
"Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer."
"When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were."
"The gospel shows us that our spiritual problem lies not only in failing to obey God, but also in relying on our obedience to make us fully acceptable to God, ourselves and others. Every kind of character flaw comes from this natural impulse to be our own saviour through our own performance and achievement. On the one hand, proud and disdainful personalities come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are succeeding. But on the other hand, discouraged and self loathing personalities also come from basing your identity on your performance and thinking you are failing."
"The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners."
"It takes pride to be anxious – I am not wise enough to know how my life should go."
"The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know."
"Like a baby learning language, we learn how to communicate with God by listening to His words first."
"If you have money, power, and status today, it is due to the century and place in which you were born, to your talents and capacities and health, none of which you earned. In short, all your resources are in the end the gift of God."
"Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is someone who has been broken by the knowledge of his or her sin, and even greater knowledge of Jesus' costly grace"
"Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there."
"Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation."
"All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart."
"Only if you first seek inner forgiveness will your confrontation be temperate, wise, and gracious. Only when you have lost the need to see the other person hurt will you have any chance of actually bringing about change, reconciliation, and healing. You have to submit to the costly suffering and death of forgiveness if there is going to be any resurrection."
"Jesus may ask of you far more than you planned to give, but He can give to you infinitely more than you dared ask or think."