"Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible."
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"If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God."
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"Jesus does not just bring good news; he is the good news."
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"I have long profited from Adele Ahlberg Calhoun's gifts in the field of spiritual development, and I am delighted that she has compiled her experience with spiritual disciplines into book form. I highly recommend it and I look forward to using it as a resource at our church."
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"If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?"
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"In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption."
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"Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer."
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"Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God."
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"The issue on which everything hangs is not whether you like His teaching but if He rose from the dead."
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"The gospel frees us from the relentless pressure of having to prove ourselves, for we are already proven and secure."
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"Christians don't believe that goodness gets you to heaven. Christians believe it's exhausting to rely on your own goodness to please God."
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"Elder brothers obey God to get things. They don't obey God to get God himself — in order to resemble him, love him, know him, and delight him."
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"Even if 80 percent of the population of a country are Christian believers, they will have almost no cultural influence if the Christians do not live in cultural centers and work in culture-forging fields such as academia, publishing, media, entertainment, and the arts. The assumption that society will improve simply be more Christian believers being present is no longer valid."
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"When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride."
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"The rich brother needs to let the gospel humble him while the poor brother needs to let the gospel affirm him."
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"Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story."
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"When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private."
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"No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed."
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"We are so quick to tweet, Facebook, and Instagram but we treat prayer with a sense of delay?"
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"Paul reminds us that in the Gospel we are both brought lower and raised higher than we can imagine."
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