To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
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Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
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The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.
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It’s very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
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As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
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I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.
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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, “Now what are we going to do about the darkness?” It’s gone!
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