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Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring.
— D. A. Carson
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
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It is a cheap zeal that reserves its passions to combat only the sins and temptations of others.
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If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.
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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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I wished she'd never stop squeezing me. I wished I could spend the rest of my life as a child, being slightly crushed by someone who loved me.
— Gail Carson Levine
If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.
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All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
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There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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A prayerless person is a disaster waiting to happen.
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To know God is to be transformed, and thus to be introduced to a life that could not otherwise be experienced.
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God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
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Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves,
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The worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.
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Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
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The place where God has supremely destroyed all human arrogance and pretension is the cross.
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Godliness rests in submission to the Almighty's will, not in intercession that seeks to change that will.
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Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.
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The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
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Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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Whenever the periphery is in danger of displacing the center, we are not far removed from idolatry. The
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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God's.
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The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.
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Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
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Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.
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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
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If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.
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Indeed, if we have experienced anything of the Father's bountiful forgiveness his mercy must become the standard of our own:
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Damn all false dichotomies to hell
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A text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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A billion years or so into eternity, how many toys we accumulated during this life will not seem too terribly important.
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Despite the protestations, one sometimes wonders if we are beginning to worship, worship rather than worship God.
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A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.
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There is no long-range effective teaching of the Bible that is not accompanied by long hours of ongoing study of the Bible.
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Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
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When we live up to our calling, we remember that in God's church people do not set the agenda, they are the agenda.
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