Goodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
RAVI ZACHARIASEvery time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
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Conviction is not merely an opinion. It is something rooted so deeply in the conscience that to change a conviction would be to change the very essence of who you are.
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When we talk politics, we moralize. When we talk morality, we politicize.
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Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.
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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind.
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The biggest difference between Jesus Christ and ethical and moral teachers who have been deified by man. Is that these moralists came to make bad people good. Jesus came to make dead people live!
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Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.
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When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite… never satisfied.
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Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it’s your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.
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There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you.
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An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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The Cross of Christ is the crux of history. Without the Cross, history cannot be defined or corrected.
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Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.
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Every time you get on your knees and pray to God, ‘Holy’ keeps the respect and reverence while ‘Father’ brings Him close & intimate.
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The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.
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In today’s society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don’t know the difference anymore.
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The mocker will not have the last laugh. You see, dancing on the grave of an extinguished Christianity is farcical at best. Because the grave is empty. And the one who knows the way out of the grave sits in the heavens and laughs.
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I am absolutely convinced that meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure. And that is why we find ourselves emptied of meaning with our pantries still full.
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The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God’s framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
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We talk so much about one’s rights so little about what is actually right.
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I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out.
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Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.
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My longings, my hopes, my dreams, and my every effort has been to live for Him who rescued me, to study for Him who gave me this mind, to serve Him who fashioned my will, and to speak for Him who gave me a voice.
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A mood can be a dangerous state of mind, because it can crush reason under the weight of feeling.
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If God is the author of life, there must be a script.
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We cannot discuss human rights, when we are denying people the right to live.
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You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.
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