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Faith is not primarily a function of how you feel.

Timothy Keller

A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
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Based Being Good Gratitude Life Over Righteousness Save Self
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
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Affirm Denial Flaw Giving Keep Love Marriage Sentimentality Support Truth
The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
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Destructive Life Now Right Sin
The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.
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Dust Gospel Heaven Humble Time Very
Money isn’t an idol. It just shows you where your idols are.
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Idol Money Show
…Singles, too, must see the penultimate status of marriage. If single Christians don’t develop a deeply fulfilling love relationship with Jesus, they will put too much pressure on their DREAM of marriage, and that will create pathology in their lives as well.
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Christian Deeply Dream Jesus Marriage Must Relationship Single Status
If God is not at the center of your life, something else is.
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Center Else God Life Something
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
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Believe Bitterness God Right Worry Wrong
When love of one’s people becomes an absolute, it turns into racism. When love of equality turns into a supreme thing, it can result in hatred and violence toward anyone who has led a privileged life. It is the settled tendency of human societies to turn good political causes into counterfeit gods.
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Absolute Good Hatred Love People People Become Political Racism Society Tendency Turn
When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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Both Cost Destroy Grace Grasp Infinitely Need Ridicule Righteousness Save Self Sinner Unworthy
You can’t live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.
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Band Believer Christian Family Friend
God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Acknowledge Admit Christian Come Failure God Grace Morally Other Outperform People Religious
Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.
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Belief Disagree People Tolerance Treat
It is impossible to forgive someone if you feel superior to him or her.
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Forgive Her Him Impossible Someone Superior
To fear the Lord is to be overwhelmed with wonder before the greatness of God and his love.
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Fear Greatness Lord Love Overwhelmed
The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God’s will to mine, but to mold my will into His.
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Bais Bend God Into Mine Mold Prayer Purpose

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