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Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

D. A. Carson

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced.
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Christ Christian Want
The more we get to know God, the more we want to know him better.
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God Knowing Knows Want
Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.
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Absolutism Heroic May
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
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Our Prayer Self World
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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Sin Understanding Weak
The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.
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Horror Sin Treasure
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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Dicatted Example God Memorize Person
God’s wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved.
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Emotional Love Wrath
We are lost when human opinion means more to us than God’s.
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Lost Mean Opinion
God has disclosed of himself in human words with such magnificent self accommodation to our limitations. Precisely so that we may be his holy people and reverence everything that he says, cherish it, value it, and thus live it out.
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Limitation May People Self
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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Christian Discipline Maturity
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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Courage God Little Love Sympathy
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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Heart Long People
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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Doe Humble Ought
It’s just that the group has accepted that document as authoritative for their group. And some documents are truthful and reliable but they are ignored, so they have no authority for that particular group.
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Accept Group Particular Truthful
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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Important Toy Years

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