"To love our success more than God and our neighbor hardens the heart, making us less able to feel and to sense."
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"Freedom is not the absence of limitations and constraints but it is finding the right ones, those that fit our nature and liberate us."
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"We must neither confuse evangelism with doing justice, nor separate them from one another."
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"We are free to fight sin, and free to win; but we must still fight."
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"God has become human. The absolute has become particular. The ideal has become real. The divine has taken up a human nature."
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"We are so evil and sinful and flawed that Jesus had to die for us... But we are so lobed and valued that he was willing to due for us."
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"In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am... because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God.’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey.’ Exactly the opposite."
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"Remember that according to the Bible, the heart is not primarily the emotions but rather the seat of our fundamental commitments and trusts, and therefore it is the control center of the whole life. So to preach to the heart means to go right for the commanding commitments of people's lives that drive their desires, thinking, feeling, and action."
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"Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality."
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"Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself and not just for the feelings and experiences they give us."
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"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."
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"Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself"
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"The product of a true, growing, gospel-centered nature is often gentleness."
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"If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit."
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"If God does not have our highest allegiance, we will use prayer to try to get things that have that designation."
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"Big cities have a lot of 'younger brothers' who have left traditional parts of the world and their families for a more liberal lifestyle. But cities are filled to the gills with 'elder brothers' too."
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"I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'"
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"Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers."
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"I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to."
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"One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'"
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