We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
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If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
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Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
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When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It’s like education. Everyone gets an education; it’s just a matter of which one you get.
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Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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Keep eternity before the children.
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The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That’s the key to transforming society in the larger arena.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
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The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
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