Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
D. A. CARSONMany 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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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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We treat the Bible, not as if it’s a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it’s dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.
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Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence.
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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
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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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That God normally operates the universe consistently makes science possible; that he does not always do so ought to keep science humble.
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Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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When you are converted, you want to do what you didn’t want to do before, and you don’t want to do what you wanted to do before.
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There’s a change in the heart; there’s a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with.
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How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.
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My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc.
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He is sold for thirty pieces of silver but gives His life a ransom for many; He will not turn stones to bread for Himself but gives His own body as bread for people.
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Make a mistake in the interpretation of one of Shakespeare’s plays, falsely scan a piece of Spenserian verse, and there is unlikely to be an entailment of eternal consequence; but we cannot lightly accept a similar laxity in the interpretation of Scripture.
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True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us
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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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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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The cliché, God hates the sin but love the sinner, is false on the face of it and should be abandoned. Fourteen times in the first fifty Psalms alone.
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The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort.
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Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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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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We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I anything to offer my readers except my conviction that when pain is to be borne.
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A little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
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The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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