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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 Knows Suffering Way
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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Bigs God Love World
Love the church because Jesus loves it.
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Church Jesus Love
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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Love Pain Teaching
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Become Book Christian Different Everybody Section
The Christian’s whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
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Christian Jesus Winning
If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist.
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Artists Doctors Economist Profound
The kingdom of heaven is worth infinitely more than the cost of discipleship, and those who know where the treasure lies joyfully abandon everything else to secure it.
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Cost Heaven Lying
I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover.
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Book Christian People
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
Often a Study Bible will also include some brief articles, photographs of geographical and archaeological sites, fairly extensive maps, and charts that summarize a lot of information.
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Archeological Information Often Sunday
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father’s will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
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Father Jesus Unqualified
Good praying is more easily caught than taught.
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Caught Praying Taught
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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Hate Liars Wrath
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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Footnoted Justification Sanctification Similarly
We are told that God hates the sinner, His wrath is on the liar, and so forth. In the Bible, the wrath of God rests both on the sin (Romans 1:18ff) and on the sinner (John 3:36).
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Abandoned God Sinner Told

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