Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
D. A. CARSONThere is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God’s approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.
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The Bible is endlessly interesting because it is God’s story, and God by nature is himself endlessly interesting. The Bible is an ever-flowing fountain. The more you read it, the more you find its truth and beauty to be inexhaustible.
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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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To worship God ‘in spirit and in truth’ is first and foremost a way of saying that we must worship God by means of Christ. In him the reality has dawned and the shadows are being swept away (Hebrews 8:13).
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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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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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When Christians speak of the authority of Scripture, because Christians believe that this word, even though it’s mediated through many different human authors.
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It’s not as if the New Testament writers came along and said, “The culmination of Old Testament books is more books, New Testament books.”
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Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life.
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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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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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God is absolutely sovereign, but his sovereignty never mitigates human responsibility.
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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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