"Your heart is smothering under your small ambitions."
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"While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope."
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"Holding a grudge against someone means you think you know what they deserve and you take it upon yourself to give it to them."
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"Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO."
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"I think these younger Christians are the vanguard of some major new religious, social, and political arrangements that could make the older form of culture wars obsolete. After they wrestle with doubts and objections to Christianity many come out on the other side with an orthodox faith that doesn't fit the current categories of liberal Democrat or conservative Republican."
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"To be a Christian is a standing, a legal position. It means to be a child of God. You are or you are not, there is no try."
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"The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own."
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"In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play have to hope that he put some information about himself in the play. But Christians believe he did more than give us information. He wrote himself into the play as the main character in history, when Jesus was born in a manger and rose from the dead."
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"We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money."
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"Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin."
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"The gospel is not about choosing to follow advice; it's about being called to follow a King."
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"Important reminder: It's not fair of you to demand more proof of Christians for their beliefs than you demand for your own."
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"Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others."
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"It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on."
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"In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture."
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"The happy ending of the Resurrection is so enormous that it swallows up even the sorrow of the Cross."
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"The two things we all want so desperately — glory and relationship — can coexist only with God."
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"Christianity is not just for the strong; it's for everyone."
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"If you don't love the poor, you don't know what God's done for you."
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"It is one thing to say that science is only equipped to test for natural causes and cannot speak to any others. It is quite another to insist that science proves that no other causes could possibly exist. . . . There would be no experimental model for testing the statement: 'No supernatural cause for any natural phenomenon is possible.' It is therefore a philosophical presupposition and not a scientific finding."
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