Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed.
RAVI ZACHARIASGoodness can endure a few moments; holiness is life-defining.
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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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God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.
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An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.
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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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You cannot have a boundary-less existence, because your neighbor has his own boundaries, and who is going to give you the ethics between the two boundaries? If there is no objective moral law, relativism will take hold, and relativism ultimately will lead to self-destruction.
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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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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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When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God’s hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.
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You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
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Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
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Our sense of wonder is a blessing from God, given so that we would be continually amazed at His beauty and creation.
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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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What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.
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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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When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do.
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