Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIANGraciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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The gospel doesn’t just free me from what people think of me, but also from what I think of me.
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Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.
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I became frustrated with myself for not being as sturdy and unquestioning as I knew a man in my position should be.
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We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.
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If you feel compelled to respond every time you’re criticized it reveals just how much you’ve built your identity on being right.
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Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
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Disobedience happens not when we think too much grace but when we think too little of it
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The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got – the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.
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Walking with God doesn’t lead to God’s favor; God’s favor leads to walking with God.
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Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
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I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
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God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
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I had turned personal validation into my primary source of meaning and value, so that without it I was miserable and depressed.
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Graciousness is the fruit of someone who knows how badly they themselves need grace.
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God wants every local church to be the first place people think to go when they’ve really messed up…not the last.
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