"There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption ."
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"While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories."
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"The most rapturous delights you have ever had - in the beauty of a landscape, or in the pleasure of food, or in the fulfillment of a loving embrace - are like dewdrops compared to the bottomless ocean of joy that it will be to see God face-to-face (1 John 3:1-3). That is what we are in for, nothing less. And according to the Bible, that glorious beauty, and our enjoyment of it, has been immeasurably enhanced by Christ's redemption of us from evil and death."
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"Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study."
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"It's impossible to have met the real Jesus and be indifferent. You either bow down in wonder OR go away offended."
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"Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel. Faith is living out and believing what truth is despite what you feel."
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"When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed."
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"Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing."
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"Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do."
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"Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?"
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"Christmas is telling you that you could never get to heaven on your own. God had to come to you."
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"At the root of all our disobedience are particular ways in which we continue to seek control of our lives through systems of works-righteousness. The way to progress as a Christian is to continually repent and uproot these systems the same way we become Christians, namely by the vivid depiction (and re-depiction) of Christ’s saving work for us, and the abandoning of self-trusting efforts to complete ourselves. We must go back again and again to the gospel of Christ-crucified, so that our hearts are more deeply gripped by the reality of what he did and who we are in him."
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"Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor."
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"If you seek to serve people more than to gain power, you will not only serve people, you will gain influence."
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"The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others."
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"Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever."
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"Jesus says, "I want you to follow me so fully, so intensely, so enduringly that all other attachments in your life look weak by comparison""
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"It is remarkable that in all of his writings Paul's prayers for his friends contain no appeals for changes in their circumstances."
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"The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed."
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"A sense of Jesus’ absence might be a sign of his presence- a sign that he’s working already in your life."
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