Sex is about timing. The world says: any time, any place. God says: my time, my place.
D. A. CARSONThe more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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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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Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Study Bibles tend to circulate widely, so they play a disproportionate role in helping Christians and others understand holy Scripture.
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In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there’s a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.
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When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery… Will there also be faith?
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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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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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